Hey Guys,
I'm trying to decide on the best way to structure my data so that I remove the chance of losing data as far as possible. At present I have two machines which house data - each has around 300GB data on local hard drives. I then have a single 250GB Firewire backup drive which I keep outside the house.
As you can see, I have around 600GB of data and only 250GB of backup space so I'm already in trouble
Actually, of that 600GB there probably only around 400GB which i really, really will cry about if I lose but the size will probably grow in the coming months.
So, I've had a couple of scares recently with hard disk failures etc and I'm keen to do something sooner rather than later to sort this out. I've got two possible solutions right now
1) Build one big RAID server with 750GB space from 4x250GB disks in raid5
2) Get one or more extra external backup drives
As far as I can see, 2) is just mirroring so it's going to cost me a lot of money going forward as I need to buy two drives all the time. 1) gives good data protection but if the house burns down or I get burgled then I've lost it all.
What would you do??
I'm trying to decide on the best way to structure my data so that I remove the chance of losing data as far as possible. At present I have two machines which house data - each has around 300GB data on local hard drives. I then have a single 250GB Firewire backup drive which I keep outside the house.
As you can see, I have around 600GB of data and only 250GB of backup space so I'm already in trouble
Actually, of that 600GB there probably only around 400GB which i really, really will cry about if I lose but the size will probably grow in the coming months.So, I've had a couple of scares recently with hard disk failures etc and I'm keen to do something sooner rather than later to sort this out. I've got two possible solutions right now
1) Build one big RAID server with 750GB space from 4x250GB disks in raid5
2) Get one or more extra external backup drives
As far as I can see, 2) is just mirroring so it's going to cost me a lot of money going forward as I need to buy two drives all the time. 1) gives good data protection but if the house burns down or I get burgled then I've lost it all.
What would you do??
