[ale] RAID card for home use?

[Paul Cartwright]

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On 09/28/2015 11:03 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> I currently have three arrays hanging off that card:
>
>  1TB   RAID1 (2x1TB, OS and homedirs)
>  4.5TB RAID5 (4x1.5TB, storage)
>  6TB   RAID5 (4x2TB, more storage)
>
> The important (ie non-recreatable) stuff on the RAID5 arrays is
> periodically archived onto optical (Blu-ray) media.  until I'm able to
> completely fill up an optical disk, everything pending is backed up
> (along with OS stuff) to an eSATA disk using rdiff-backup, preserving 30
> days of history.
>
> Overall things are about 55% utilized; when I hit 66% I'll replace the
> 4x1.5TB array with 4x3TB disks, and retire a bunch of 1TB drives in the
> process.  That'll probably happen in the spring, or if something fails
> first.  :)
wow... all I have to backup is basically my photos & videos.. currently
112Gb.. I back those up to different USB sticks and a Mybook external
drive..
maybe I need a NAS drive.. but those aren't really meant to be backup
drives, are they?

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
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