Blessed are the geeks...

[Slyer]

I'm a collector of movies because I like collecting heh.
There are movies that I might never watch again for years and years but my flatmates might want to, or my friends. Or I might suddenly feel the urge to.

[riffer]

In the words of Nike - just stream it.

Don't get me started on our continual blowing of the internet cap. Why oh why did I let the kids have internet to their PCs? I'm thinking I may just block youtube...

[SMOKEU]

I used to have a RAID5 array of 320gb drives.

You need a minimum of 3 drives first of all. If you make 3 into a RAID5 you get the storage capacity of 2 of the drives but you are protected against any of the drives failing, you just replace the drive and the array rebuilds happily. It becomes more of an advantage if you have more and bigger drives.
5x 1TB drives in RAID5 = 4GB of storage, all in the one partition which means you won't have to copy from drive to drive ever again. And if you lose any of the 5 drives you are safe, just replace it ASAP and it will rebuild the array and you'll be protected again.

Disadvantages are that if you lose 2 drives at once you lose EVERYTHING. And yeah it's not for everyone.

RAID1 is easier. 2 drives that mirror each other, everything that happens is written and read from both drives so if you lose one you've still go the other. Nice and easy.

You mean 4 TB of storage, don't you?

[riffer]

I used to have a RAID5 array of 320gb drives.

Running RAID5 on the Home Server. The Home Theatre is just for movies, music and Ultrastar.

[Slyer]

You mean 4 TB of storage, don't you?

Yes

[Big Dave]

Don't get me started on our continual blowing of the internet cap. Why oh why did I let the kids have internet to their PCs? I'm thinking I may just block youtube...

I have a telecom package with no data cap. Flat rate about a hundy a month from memory.

[Lias]

Well done that man. Just delt with a client who has had her 2nd hard drive faliure in a year. Unfortunately she didn't head my warnings after the first time and has lost 9 months of business data, unable to pay GST or clients. I had even sold her an external and shown her how to back it all up.

Sigh

The data's probably recoverable with a cleanroom rebuild. Just tell the customer that unless they want to go bankrupt its going to cost them a few grand to get the data recovered.

[Ronin]

The data's probably recoverable with a cleanroom rebuild. Just tell the customer that unless they want to go bankrupt its going to cost them a few grand to get the data recovered.

Yup, the drive went for professional data recovery, rebuilt with parts from the states and to quote them "Nasa couldn't get data back"

Mind you, Nasa did miss Mars once so perhaps that wasn't the best of things to say.

The data that did come back was corrupt.

[Lias]

Ouch. 10 chars

[TerminalAddict]

lol @ yous fullas that think RAID is a replacement to backups ...

[Slyer]

I even said I know it's not a replacement for a full backup. But it saves me in the case of a drive failure.
It's great for when you have loads of big hard drives and a lot of media. I wouldn't use it for saving photos etc...