Back-up Computer Storage

[Byte Stryke]

byte sent me the newegg stuff but I am having a hard time getting around the cost. I think I would be happier with a 1tb or larger external drive and hope it holds out.

That's what I Sent you.

its an external drive that can be connected via network, USB or Firewire.

[Ah Pook]

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That's what I Sent you.

its an external drive that can be connected via network, USB or Firewire.

Don't be too much. We don't want to damage that long term memory.

Definitely want firewire capable. USB2 takes FOREVER. 25min v.s. 3hrs on my last back-up.

[sniper7]

That's what I Sent you.

its an external drive that can be connected via network, USB or Firewire.

you need to remember who you are talking to. I fly airplanes! You have to tell me things in computer stupid people speak!

[Byte Stryke]

you need to remember who you are talking to. I fly airplanes! You have to tell me things in computer stupid people speak!

Box hold copies of things you dont want to lose
everyone share on network
use electricity and passwords
you buy, me fix for you

[sniper7]

Box hold copies of things you dont want to lose
everyone share on network
use electricity and passwords
you buy, me fix for you

I still don't get it

[King]

I backup duplicates of my important stuff. I use an external hard drive and DVD/CD's so that if my hard drive fails, I can always recover from the opticals. If your worried about hard drive failure, RAID is always nice but can be expensive

[sniper7]

I backup duplicates of my important stuff. I use an external hard drive and DVD/CD's so that if my hard drive fails, I can always recover from the opticals. If your worried about hard drive failure, RAID is always nice but can be expensive

can someone explain what RAID is? I thought that was to kill insects

[Monky]

The world is ending soon.. who cares about long term storage?

[streetglideok]

can someone explain what RAID is? I thought that was to kill insects

RAID stands for Random Array of Independent Drives. Basically, it allows you to use multiple hard drives together. There is different kinds of raid arrays. RAID 0 and RAID 1 are common. RAID 1 is also known as a mirror array and is used for backups. Basically, whenever you save something, it saves it on two identical hard drives at once, one being an exact mirror of the other, automatically. Might also think of them working parallel. RAID 0 is aka stripe array. When you save or upload from the array, it pulls from all the drives at once, each one recording or loading a part of the file, and greatly increases the speed that files can be accessed. Problem is, if one drive fails, the whole thing goes down. Some setups are a hybrid of the two, and allows it to make a backup on one huge drive, or several drives, so if a drive fails on a RAID 0, replace the bad one, and basically do a recovery. Hopefully that makes a little sense. RAID 0 makes windows move alot faster, RAID 1 is great to make backups of important things. Just remember, if there is a fire, or so on, its all gone anyways. Burning his pictures to blueray discs, and storing them in a safety deposit box might be the only foolproof way for him.