Hi Ryan this is a real and dangerous misunderstanding of the purpose of Raid technology IMHO. Raid keeps your system running if one drive fails at a time but would not help against software corruption, (user) deletion of files, fire, theft and many more.....
greetings Markus >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ryan K. Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:38 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity? >> >> >> >>I store all my photos and scans on a dedicated RAID 5 setup. In my >>case, I built one using a 3ware card, my old PC, a gig-e card and >>FreeBSD. Today, I'd probably buy something like the ReadyNAS NV. I >>make backups to firewire disks and store those off-site. >> >>To me, this is the only way to make sure my files survive. >>-Ryan >>
