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Backup hard drive system (OT)
I finally had a hard drive fail that had my video projects archived and which I did not have backed up. The pain of the data recovery cost is moving me to consider investing in external drives or some type of removable drive system. I probably need about 6-8 terabytes of total storage.
all suggestions and thoughts appreciated.
Mary Waitrovich
Media Plus You, LCC
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I use a 12TB JBOD Raid(5) system. If you lose a drive you can plug in a new one and reconstruct the data The overhead is one disk worth. So if you had a JBOD with 6-2TB drives you would have 10TB of storage. They are pretty quick too. You may want to buy the extra drive beforehand.
Jeff
http://www.narrowroadmedia.com
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Jeff is your JBOD a BYO or a commercial box? Hard disks are so darned cheap, I have been thinking of building a RAID kit.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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It came as an empty case with fan, power supply and esata controller card. I supplied the drives and assembled it.
Jeff
http://www.narrowroadmedia.com
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I might be willing to try building one, but haven’t been able to find a good online discussion about the details. Do you know of any? What type of case did you get for the drives?
Thanks!
Mary Waitrovich
Media Plus You, LCC
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Mary,
I don’t know of any discussions, but if I were to go looking I would start at tomshardware.com.
I bought a Sans Digital Towerraid, and 4-3TB Samsung 5400 rpm drives. The most important thing to look for is the controller card. Make sure it does everything you need it to do. The spin-up time seems a bit slow but I get awesome R/W speed. This is my long-term storage, which used to be on several 1TB drives that I would pop in as needed. If I fill this one up I would add another just like it.
I hope this helps,
Jeff
http://www.narrowroadmedia.com
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