I’m looking for the most well-organized (cheapest but still excellent) option for backing up family photos and such. I’d rather it not be integrated in my computer, so an external raid enclosure with mirroring would be cool unless there’s a better thought. I basically just want to not have to agonize about HDD failure, but don’t want to set hurdles storage space with manual or weird software backup.
Point harvest would be nice… Thanks!
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Answer by DB
Wouldn’t bother with raid – its not like you’ll be reading and writing millions of times like a system drive does.
I’d just get a single external hard drive and replace it every few years, or if you want redundancy, get 2x external drives and maintain 2 copies of your backups. Thats essentially doing the same as a mirrored raid but much more flexible
P.S. if you’re really concerned with HDD failure then you may possibly get an enterprise class hard drive as these have higher performance and lower failure rates
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If you only want to backup your photos, then uploading them to Picasa is my best thought. There is no dread of hard disk failure in Picasa.
If you want to store your data independent of HDD failure, I recommend you to backup your data to another disk drive by a backup software. If you want free, fully featured, unlimited size backup solution for this, I recommend StoreGrid’s local backup feature.
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Aravind
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