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| For backup Drobo is great. Not cheap. I've had mine for five years now and no (knock on wood, inshallah etc) crash. The main machines crash, but Drobo keeps on chugging. Drives have failed in Drobo but the other drives keep the data. So I just replace the dead one and I'm back off to the races. I believe it's sort of a Raid 1 - maybe Raid 1 for dummies. I have 12TB in mine. Around a third is used for redundancy. Seems stupid till one of the Drobo drives croaks, then it's Hallelujah time. My model (older) can hold up to 16TB. Newer ones are faster and hold more. Another cool device that requires more hands on attention is the Newer Technology "Voyager". It's like a little toaster you stick internal drives in. I take the old crashed drives from Drobo, reformat and use them in the Voyager for backing up very critical stuff. Cheap and easy. Not as reliable as Drobo as you have to stick the drives in now and then and keep them exercised. Backup technology is still cave man tech, but at least with Drobo your club is, say, iron instead of balsa wood. Cloud is cool if you don't have multi terabytes of data to upload. Maybe if I go on a two month tour I could upload that while gone. Relatively slow connect here at the edge of the known universe. For external audio drives, I use Other World Computing drives. They are quite rugged, considering. Always sorry to hear about crashes. On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Todd Elliott wrote: I use 'crashplan' for offsite backups, and can recommend it-- they offer a service where they ship you a hard drive, and you seed your own online backup with it; they have no throttling or storage limit (unlike carbonite). Worth the dough for the peace of mind. |