Thank you RAID! I almost lost 450GB of movies today.

[magiic]

I've been wanting to get a Drobo but I just can't justify it. $349.99CAD + tax is too much

 

[fivepoint]

I have a fairly new Western Digitial World Book in RAID configuration, I was half tempted to move everything to a single WD 1TB drive later next week. Low and behold one of the drives died, wont boot not even attached physically to another PC. Thank goodness for RAID!

How do you guys manage your library? After this I wont ever place a movie on a single disk....ever!

**EDIT: title should read "I almost lost 450GB of movies today"

It's late, i'm tired

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/502415/

 

[tronic72]

I have a fairly new Western Digitial World Book in RAID configuration, I was half tempted to move everything to a single WD 1TB drive later next week. Low and behold one of the drives died, wont boot not even attached physically to another PC. Thank goodness for RAID!

How do you guys manage your library? After this I wont ever place a movie on a single disk....ever!

**EDIT: title should read "I almost lost 450GB of movies today"

It's late, i'm tired

Have always had my media on Mirrored drives. Except now. And I'm soooo, soooooo nervous. Recently had our server die so only have the media on a single drive via external HD. The only peace of mind we have is the second RAID drive is still around but the data is out of date.

Always mirror. It's too cheap NOT to.

 

[deputylove8]

Man..I cant imagine losing even 20 GB of my data. 450 gb..I m like..OH MY GOD!

 

[Wotan31]

I agree that if you don't back up regularly, using RAID mirroring is a good idea.

RAID is not a backup! Backing up your data to an external disk is the only way to have a backup of your data.

The only thing RAID gives you is *availability* of your data i.e. your workflow continues uninterrupted when a disk fails vs. non-RAID where you have to stop your workflow and restore from backup.

RAID is not a substitute for making regular backups of your data!

 

[Alrescha]

RAID is not a substitute for making regular backups of your data!

Never said it was. You might want to re-read what I wrote before getting all excited.

A.

 

[mrgreen4242]

Movies I like are being burnd to double layer dvds /bluray because this is the optimal long time storage.

Nope. That's a terrible long term solution, unless you are using archival quality discs.

http://www.popphoto.com/article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=1492

Blu Ray is even more susceptible to this problem, from early reports.