Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Mark Tucker" 
<mtucker508@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography 
> <skid@b...> wrote:
> Now, we are chomping through those 27 gigs and have recently 
> bought into a new Iomega
> > system called the 'Peerless'.
> 
> 
> I have always envisioned a box of some kind, that would hold 
> slide-in harddrives. Maybe the box had five or six slots, and you 
> could just slide in another 75gig drive as you needed the 
> storage. 
> 
> Someone recently sent me a link to a device that was similar to 
> this, but I've lost the URL now. So I know that it at least exists 
in 
> some form.

I believe you are referring to RAID arrays.

SNIP

> And this doesn't even address the issue of reduncancy. Now that 
> you've got everything on a couple of drives, now you'd want all 
> that backed up. And for me, I'd also want something where I 
> could easily keep the backup data in a totally separate location, 
> in case of fire. So you can see it could get complicated pretty 
> quickly.

RAID may be your answer. This can be accomplished from the 
motherboard if available or from an add in card. I build my own 
systems, so I made sure my motherboard included RAID - I stripe my 
data across two 40 Gig hard drives for speed and have another pair of 
40 Gig drives that are redundant - they exist together in one array. 
There are many options, some levels of RAID can even rebuild lost 
data since it is broken up into small sections and spread across 
multiple hard drives. Since RAID is hot swapable, you could use 
external hardrives to back up your internal (or permanent) hard 
drives and move them offsite. At current pricing, this really is a 
viable option if the data is that important. 

Another option would be to network the data to a server at another 
location for storage.

> 
> I'd love to hear any solutions that anyone has come up with, 
> especially if it was in the 200-300gig amounts.
> 
> -Mark Tucker

SNIP

Hope that helps.

Terry