Digital BW, The Print

Richard

You are referreing to Raid 5

Paul


> From: Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:40:44 +1200
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re:Hard Drive Activity
> 
> Hi,
> there are different versions of RAID.
> 
> I can't remember the name for the version I was talking about, but this
> version stripes data across, say, five discs and ends up with performance from
> the scratch disk that is as fast as RAM - so you can end up with the
> performance equivalent 80GB of ram for photoshop.
> 
> Amadou's book talks about this and a friend up the road, who has this setup,
> told me about the speed equivalence.
> 
> r54[p-0 (The cat wrote that bit, but it looks very techy to me.)
> 
> Richard
> 
> At 01:50 a.m. Saturday 27/06/2009, you wrote:
> 
> 
>> I finally had someone straighten me out of RAID. As we all know, RAID
>> provides a second drive that mirrors the first drive in real time. The
>> issue is that if you totally screw-up a file and save it by mistake, RAID
>> will automatically mirror the screwed up file and you're left without a
>> backup. The better arrangement is a system of backup disks that backup
>> every hour or once a day or whatever time schedule that you want to
>> establish. Many folks have a primary drive backed up daily (or more often)
>> on a second drive and then a third drive that is kept offsite and backed up
>> once a month. Some also do DVD backups to be kept offsite.
>> 
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>> 
>> 
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