space_cowboy


Also, why doesn't someone just come out with a 10 Peta Byte drive so we can stop worrying for a few months.  

Peta Byte Drive?


Is that where those fake fur wearers organize a potluck event to raise money to buy more red paint?

 
Just out of interest, what type of memory do online storage systems use?
 
The CHB uses an A-Drive 50GB online storage account - how secure are their systems?
 
And how prohibitively expensive (?) must such a system be that we haven't all got the same type of memory for personal back-up use?

I just ordered two Lacie 2g drives because my WDs are both failing.

 
I don't believe Lacie actually makes a HD, just the encolosures.
I have had several external Lacie Drives, and they were all loaded with WD's!

Beagle

+1, I think, for the 2nd time, my backup drive is starting to fail.  I'm beginning to wonder if it's because of the external case?

Since internal drives way bigger than what I need are getting *so* cheap, I've switched strategies about maintaining backups.  First I bought Acronis, which has a really easy to use one-click backup operation.  Then on the most recent machine (non-DAW) I acquired, I have two large drives.  One is a dedicated internal backup.  It being easy (and fast!) to keep a reasonably current image of the C drive, I back up frequently.  The odds of both drives failing at the same time are small.  Granted, I'd be totally SOL if a house fire or the like occured.  On the other hand, even I had an external drive, I'd probably not be very diligent in storing it outside my home.
 
I'll be doing something alone the same lines when I buy an up-to-date dedicated DAW machine.  There'll just be more drives.  As long as you have a drive image of all drives on a different drive, you're reasonably assured of being able to recover from a singel drive failure.
 

SteveStrummerUK


 
Just out of interest, what type of memory do online storage systems use?
 
The CHB uses an A-Drive 50GB online storage account - how secure are their systems?
 
And how prohibitively expensive (?) must such a system be that we haven't all got the same type of memory for personal back-up use?

To give you some sort of idea, at work I have something similar to this connected to a dedicated storage server.   It has 12 x 750Gb drives running in a 10 + 2 config giving approx 7Tb of drive space with the ability to withstand 2 simultaneous total lost drive failures with no data loss or drop in performance.
The drives are hot swappable, so when one fails (3 have failed in 5 years) I just pull it out and plug in a new one without turning anything off.  The server recognises the new drive and rebuilds the drive array to include it.  I generally keep 2 spare drives in stock.
 
Data centres use similar systems, but with bigger arrays.

WOW

I wonder how quickly I could zap 7Tb's of data with one of those.

(Are you sure?)

Karyn

SteveStrummerUK


 
Just out of interest, what type of memory do online storage systems use?
 
The CHB uses an A-Drive 50GB online storage account - how secure are their systems?
 
And how prohibitively expensive (?) must such a system be that we haven't all got the same type of memory for personal back-up use?

To give you some sort of idea, at work I have something similar to this connected to a dedicated storage server.   It has 12 x 750Gb drives running in a 10 + 2 config giving approx 7Tb of drive space with the ability to withstand 2 simultaneous total lost drive failures with no data loss or drop in performance.
The drives are hot swappable, so when one fails (3 have failed in 5 years) I just pull it out and plug in a new one without turning anything off.  The server recognises the new drive and rebuilds the drive array to include it.  I generally keep 2 spare drives in stock.
 
Data centres use similar systems, but with bigger arrays.

Just out of curosity, how much did it run?

I have 5 HD's right now, but maybe when I upgrade my system, I'll go a raid 5 route.   Also, I back up to blueray (although probably not often enough)

I guess you mean how much did it cost?   You're looking at $8000 - $10000 for a system like that, plus a server to drive it.  It would be way overkill for a home system, mine  (I say mine, I just look after it) is the central storage for an entire company.


If you have some loose change to throw away though, there is always the HP MDS600 system...   70 x 1Tb drives in a single 5u enclosure - $35000   bargain!!!

dmbaer

Beagle

+1, I think, for the 2nd time, my backup drive is starting to fail.  I'm beginning to wonder if it's because of the external case?

Since internal drives way bigger than what I need are getting *so* cheap, I've switched strategies about maintaining backups.  First I bought Acronis, which has a really easy to use one-click backup operation.  Then on the most recent machine (non-DAW) I acquired, I have two large drives.  One is a dedicated internal backup.  It being easy (and fast!) to keep a reasonably current image of the C drive, I back up frequently.  The odds of both drives failing at the same time are small.  Granted, I'd be totally SOL if a house fire or the like occured.  On the other hand, even I had an external drive, I'd probably not be very diligent in storing it outside my home.
 
I'll be doing something alone the same lines when I buy an up-to-date dedicated DAW machine.  There'll just be more drives.  As long as you have a drive image of all drives on a different drive, you're reasonably assured of being able to recover from a singel drive failure.
 

+1

I'm going to start doing this at the earliest opportunity.

It looks much easier and cheaper now just to have a redundant drive cloned and ready to switch out.

Jonbouy


WOW

I wonder how quickly I could zap 7Tb's of data with one of those.

(Are you sure?)

I've got all the UAD plugs. Will that do it?