Raid Drives Crash. Half a million photos lost.
 

Fortunately my brother backed all of them up just a month and a half ago. He needed work so I had him back up ALL my stuff to DVD.

Money well spent.

Smart decision, that would have been a huge loss

Like I'm telling most of you god fearing G's. BACK THE FUCK UP your w0rk and none of this shit needs to go down... like, seriously.

nice save

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I back up all the time when it pays off it feels good

time to go to Lacie drives :thumbsup

OH damn i almost bursted in to tears for you when i saw the title hehe. Its always good to do at leat a bi weekly backup. It just helps me sleep better at night.

RAID? If you RAID - use 5. RAID 1 and 2 are worthless.

There will be no more RAID arrays for me. :)

As my hero once said:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee ? I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee ? that says, fool me once, shame on ? shame on you. Fool me ? you can't get fooled again."

what kind of raid setup did you have?

I don't know the technicals. All I know is that two drives were seen as one. The computer was set up like that back when 2.6 Ghz was the top of the line for speed. I can't remember how far back that is.

whew 8

Really good to hear. I know how that goes. we lost a lot on a HD and learned a tuff lesson.

Or better yet - get a host that backs everything up for you daily. National Net rocks.

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wow that would have sucked

Why don't you have your host run daily back-ups? I always stress the importance of a daily back-up with my paysite clients. Your paysites are your cash crop, why risk such a thing?

Yep you have to have your raid5 drives even backed up with another backup if the info is very important. We double back up all the time

Heh good thinking backing it up...

Until you find out your brother was just jerking off all day and putting labels on blank dvd's.

Most people have the wrong raid drive setup. Raid was "supposed" to be for backup purposes (i..e the data is written to 2 drives instead of 1 so you have a backup) but it seems most people use it to make 2 drives look like 1 bigger drive eg. 2 120G drives appear as 1 big 240G drive.. that's just asking for trouble.. big trouble..

Man, I used a raid 5 and some cheapo fans in my machine failed.. 3 drives ate it. lost everything on the array. Never thought that would happen

Not all was lost.. :) Yep buck up your stuff people!

Is it a large virtual, or mirrored drive?

You can use RAID for striping which basically doubles the read and write speed of the array since it combines two physical drives into one virtual (double sized) drive.

The other version of low end RAID is mirroring, which writes everything to both physical drives. One can fail and you still have a perfect copy on the second.

Sounds like you may have had a striping setup if one drive dying killed the array... personally I would only use striping if I needed fast scratch space, not for permanent storage.

i run raid 0 on my main desktop - idea is for faster access times to the data. good for video editing.

http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

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RAID 0. This actually makes your drive array 1/2 as reliable as running a single drive. But twice as fast.

RAID 1 is what you should use for redundancy. This way the 2nd drive mirrors the first, giving you twice as much reliability.

You need at least a RAID5 set up, minimum of three drives but I would go at least 4, the server will see the drive as one large drive. If you lose a drive the server will stay up, just unplug the bad and install the new and no one will know the difference.

If you do Raid make sure it's RAID5 or 10 :)

Now if you lose two drives in the Raid at the same time, and they are in a row then you are fucked.

We run Raid5 on all of our servers since 1998, we have only lost one Raid5 set since then.

my raid had 5 servers 250 gigs each

I thought the purpose of RAID was that you don't lose data?

Although I did learn the hard way not to mix RAID and mysql....that was a fuckin nightmare

Fifty years from now, I'll still be laughing at that quote.

Nice save on the backups :thumbsup