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Article #228Re: Digital archives on CDR [Was: No more film R&D, we're going digital: Kodak]
From: Tom Thackrey
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:31
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:31
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On 30-Sep-2003, "dvus" <dven1@adelphia.net> wrote: > photon wrote: > > [snip] > > Digital is only archival if you are extremely careful, backup > > everything regularly and copy old media to new ones to avoid > > obsolescence. I even just upgraded my PC with a RAID setup to have > > some sort of fault tolerance, following a recent hardware failure of > > my system disk, which caused me the loss of a few files only. > > <shudder...>, I went the Raid0 route awhile back for the speed increase, > (turns > out that wasn't even that significant), and had a problem with one of the > drives. Due to the mechanics of the system, when I lost one drive the info > on > the other was useless as well. I learned a big lesson then, I stick with > conventional drive use now and if one drive fails I still have the info on > the > others. It's too bad you didn't understand the RAID levels. Had you used RAID5 or one of the other levels that provides fault tolerance instead of just drive spanning you would not have lost ANY data. -- Tom Thackrey www.creative-light.com
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