Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I know that everyone loves the concept of Raid Arrays.... > > But a simple question..... > > Why use RAID HDD? Why not simply buy a "few" external USB/Firwire HDD and > every night arrange for them to make incremental backups automatically? > They are available up to 2TB, cost about $100-200 each, and seem to be as > reliable as in-computer HDD. > > Use 3 of them.. with every day another drive gets backed up, the other 2 > being 1 or 2 days old in data......so you have a laddered backup strategy, > and quadruple redundancy. > > ???? I used the RAID, because it seemed "simple". Connect the drive, copy images to one and it is mirrored to another. Sadly, I did not "fully" understand how that mirroring worked. Still not "clear", but in "principle" it seemed a good idea ;-) Cheers Alastair