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Best Redundant Storage for Home Use?

Posted by Cliff on from the as-bits-replace-paper-and-tapes dept.

Brad Mace asks: "Despite my hard drive's dedicated service, I'm aware that it will someday fail. I'm not really interested in burning 100 CD-Rs to backup my hard drive, so I've been looking at RAID solutions. Obviously I don't need the best or the fastest stuff out there. What would be a reasonable setup for personal use? Have people had better experiences with internal raid arrays, external raid towers, or networked storage such as Snap servers? I'm primarily interested in low price and ease of use."

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  1. Hard drive replacement by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Despite my hard drive's dedicated service, I'm aware that it will someday fail.

    In terms of storage efficiency, nothing beats the naggy girlfriend:

    • Reliability -- remembers each and every one of my mistakes, without fail.
    • Rapid access time -- often points out my faults within milliseconds.
    • Built in redundancy -- all too eager to discuss the same topics releatedly.

    The downside, though, is the insanely high maintenance fee. Noisy too.

    1. Re:Hard drive replacement by Gzip+Christ · · Score: 5, Funny
      Noisy too.
      If you're bothered by the noisy cooling system, you could just do what I do and use a Palm.


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