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Old 01-23-2011, 07:10 AM   #24
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Default Re: Computer geeks! Need your advice.

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Originally Posted by kgoings View Post
Get a RAID enclosure; you'll have to buy hard drives to fill it. RAID can mirror, stripe, or mirror and stripe your drives so you have redundancy and do not have to worry about losing our data because of a drive failure.
You'll need at least 3 drives for redundancy and can only store as large as the smallest drive.

At the cost of storage prices, an annual SD, Flash, or HD copied and stored away could be cheaper. Inevitablly, you want off site storage if you truly want you data protected. Anyplace you can see out your window is not off site.
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