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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:05:20 -0600
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On 11/27/24 2:44 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:15:05 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>   
>>
>> I understood that what he offered took care of speed and volume nicely,
>> but not the safety. I could not make sure each backup is placed on a new
>> media or each disk there contains more than one backup. If a disk, any
>> disk, is accessed all the time, it will crash one day.
>>
> 
> Wrong.
> 
> The entire concept of RAID is to ensure data integrity (i.e. safety)
> through redundancy.
> 
> In vallor's example, 8 drives would have to fail SIMULTANEOUSLY
> for data to be lost, and the probability of that occurrence would
> be EXTREMELY small.
> 
> You should adopt a RAID system with maybe 3-5 drives.  This system
> would be on-line continuously and you could backup your data in a
> continuous fashion.
> 
> If desired, you could then backup to a more permanent storage
> at regular intervals.
> 
> RAID is used everywhere when data integrity is essential.
> 
> I don't use it because my data is more of the "library"
> model where weekly or even monthly backups are acceptable.
> 
> 



So there is a solution but it costs $5000 ?

Thanks, but no thanks. :)