As you may know... I've just built a server... which is awesome! I can back up to it over the network faster than I can to a local drive Also, the server is backed up to a NAS box. Considering I have 2 back ups... one of them on a system with redundancy, would you say that's enough? I ask because I still also have a 1.5TB internal drive for back up as well, which I was planning to still use. So I'd have back up on internal, server, and nas box. My current internal disk set up is thus: C: 1TB Spinpoint F1 D: 1TB Spinpoint F1 E: 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 I was thinking of having both F1s in RAID0 as C:, and using the seagate as a D: drive... and just relying on the server and NAS for back up. Good idea? Crap idea? Discuss
My father always told me, If I can't be good, be safe. But, he never said I needed to wear 3 rubber hats Ok, on a serious note, I reckon with 2 sets of backups, you'll be covering most eventualities. My tuppence worth.
I forgot to mention... one of those backups is off site as well... so covered for theft and fire etc. I'll gather a few more opinions before I start torturing my ICH10 chipset
I'd say as long as you have one backup you should be safe But if you're happy with your current speed then I'd stay with a double backup
its doubtful you will see much of a difference, so i dont think it would be worth the hassle (no risk since you seem anal about backups).
All true of course.... Part of me just wants to do it for coolness factor I suppose. I shall think on the matter further.
I suspect you are right. I'm just running out of things to do now LOL. I suppose water cooling the i7 and shooting for a 4.5GHz 24/7 is next then
I would go for watercooling over raid 0, especially if you are going for that added coolness factor! Even though you have several levels of redundant backup, just the hassle of having to rebuild an entire failed raid 0 array would be enough to put me off...
I have my 2 F1 drives in raid 0. Been in that config since the day they where released and iI have had no problems with them. Simon
i thought about buying 2 F3's and putting them in RAID0 as the next step in my system, but tbh the only thing that will make a significant difference is buying an SSD. which is the next stage for me.
Good Lord.. I've already bought 9TB of drives in the past week... you want me to buy more? LOL I'll put this plan on the back burner for now. I'll revisit it at weekend.