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G raid

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:17 pm
by Mike in O
Is this backup worth looking into...1/2 price at $100
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... Drive.html

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:43 pm
by E.J. Peiker
Looks pretty good especially since it is actively cooled. DO realize that RAID is not backup, it is equipment redundancy that allows you to keep working when you have a drive failure. You still need an independent backup as any file corruption will immediately get copied across both drives. RAID also uses a single controller to control all drives in the RAID so a failure there could render both drives inoperable and/or scrambled. For this reason, it is imperative that seperate backup be used.

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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:50 pm
by Mike in O
E.J. Peiker wrote:Looks pretty good especially since it is actively cooled.  DO realize that RAID is not backup, it is equipment redundancy that allows you to keep working when you have a drive failure.  You still need an independent backup as any file corruption will immediately get copied across both drives.  RAID also uses a single controller to control all drives in the RAID so a failure there could render both drives inoperable and/or scrambled.  For this reason, it is imperative that seperate backup be used.
Thank you very much