Thread: I have Hard Drive extensions going down on me like flies. What can be done?
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Old 08-24-2010, 06:19 AM  
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post

I would recommend for you getting a drobo

http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...d=0CDsQ8wIwBA#

You can put 8 TB in that one I think. It is intelligent back up. If one of the 4 HDDs dies, it doesn't matter. You can hot swop it, put new one in and you're all good.
Its a JBOD setup. He can hotswap it all he want, but the data on the disk is gone. There is no raid controller to rebuild it, and no disk to rebuild it from since its just a stripeset.

The data stability of disks, make them unusable for longterm backups. DISKS are not a backup media, unless you want to invest $5k+ in a no single points of failure entrylevel SAN
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