Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:52

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h1dd3n_h4m$73r@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:

> In calgary.general Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Even someone as stupid as you should be able to work out from the
>> thread that if he does want raid5, the collosal kludge of attempting it
>> with individual USB bridges per drive is a completely silly way to do
>> that.
> 
> Not at all, given "his" constraints.
> 
>> And you dont need raid5 in a BACKUP POOL anyway.
> 
> That's a judgement call, based on the value of the data.

Actually, unless one needs to span two drives to get space for a single
backup, for backup you're better off having multiple independent backup
drives and removing them when not in use, so that you're using them in the
same general way that tapes are used.  Having an array online for backup
makes it difficult to maintain isolated generations--something that kills
one backup may kill them all.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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