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Originally posted by Joe
RAID0 the beyatch and just burn the goodies to DVD, or spin it to Tape once a month. the chance of an unexpected failure is not to high, but if it happens you atleast have something to fall back on.
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There are huge downsides of that for some of us.. I have a 480 Gb raid 5, and I could, in theory, convert that to a 600 Gb raid 0 and backup, as you said. But that would require a hell of a lot of dvd's to back it up and would take nearly forever. A tape, I'm not sure of the speed, but I believe they are even slower. I can't wait a week for a backup to commence.
The other issue is when data is often updated. I do a lot of art on my computer where I'm working with very large (500Mb) psd files. Now, If I back up once a month, I still stand to lose the last month's data. Which isn't just limited to time and bandwith to redownload it. It's limited to my inspiration. And let me tell you that inspiration isn't something that comes along twice. So it is
imperitive that I not lose data, as it truly is irreplaceable.
That's why I don't worry about losing 1 drive of my raid to not have to worry about losing data. I used to just back everything up on two drives, and this is much more convenient.
btw, I still do back up the important parts of my raid on a friend's raid every lan party.. just in case.