Trent Gillespie
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I amass a decent amount of RAW data every year, around 500GB, and am looking to modify my storage practices. Currently, I have a file server that houses my data drive as well as a backup disk. I then have my production box that reads/writes data to the file server over the network. The potential problems are fire, flood, theft, drive failure, etc.
My ideas are
My ideas are
- Raid 10 > Production box with hot swap bay > Rotate one of the mirror drives on a weekly basis and move it offsite.
Pros: Performance, data redundancy, seamless drive sync
Cons: Cost - Raid 1 > Production Box > External hard drive to backup the array on a weekly basis and move it offsite.
Pros: Cost
Cons: Performance, needs software backup, not as automated/seamless - Raid 1 > NAS/file server > External hard drive to backup the array on a weekly basis and move it offsite.
Pros: separate operating environment, automated backup process
Cons: power consumption of another server