[Ardour-Users] Archive media

[Brett McCoy]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 16:40 +0200, Nando wrote:
>> I have a NAS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage )
>> built on a cheap atom board with 3 disk raid5
>> ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID ). I use it to store everything
>> there, but it could be used only for backup, remaining off the rest of
>> the time.
>>
>>
>> Raid5 allows for any one of the disks in the array to fail without
>> data loss. The disk has to be replaced then in order to maintain the
>> security of the array, should any other disk be failing. <- was this
>> correct in english? :p
>>
>> It doesn't give you fire-proof security as the other solutions, but I
>> find it confortambe to manage.
>
> :D raid on a DAW?! Btw. are the safes also flooding proved?

I keep my fireproof safe on the second story of my house... if we get
a flood that high I will have more serious problems worry about than
my backups :-)

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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