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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2005, 12:48:55 PM »
Quote from: Tim on February 28, 2005, 12:40:18 PM
could you explain raid? I've seen it mentioned before and assume it is some sort of backup...

There are many types of RAID configs, but essentially you use a second harddrive as a 'mirror' in case of failure of one of the drives you have an exact copy of it.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2005, 12:50:14 PM »
so say I have dirve 1 and drive 2, with drive 1 mirrored on drive 2, can I store anything on drive 2 or is it reserved just to mirror drive 1?
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2005, 12:51:13 PM »
Quote from: Tim on February 28, 2005, 12:40:18 PM
could you explain raid? I've seen it mentioned before and assume it is some sort of backup...

Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2005, 12:53:57 PM »
Quote from: Tim on February 28, 2005, 12:50:14 PM
so say I have dirve 1 and drive 2, with drive 1 mirrored on drive 2, can I store anything on drive 2 or is it reserved just to mirror drive 1?

Just a mirror of drive 1...so basicly you give up half your space for the guarentee that if one drive goes bad you still have your data.

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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2005, 01:49:00 PM »
anybody aware of a raid solution (software or hardware) available for drives mounted as usb2 external drives? 
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2005, 01:57:59 PM »
 I know linux has several software RAID implementations but I'm not aware of solutions for other OS's

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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2005, 02:09:32 PM »
Quote from: ethan on February 28, 2005, 01:57:59 PM
I know linux has several software RAID implementations but I'm not aware of solutions for other OS's

Windoze has supported software-implemented RAID since NT 4.0, I think.  No idea if it'll work on USB drives, though, but I don't see why not.
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #22 on: February 28, 2005, 02:47:10 PM »
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_diskconcepts_17.mspx

looks like you need to be running a true server os (i.e. not xp pro or lower) to be able to mirror volumes under windoze.

Thanks for the throught tho
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #23 on: February 28, 2005, 02:57:32 PM »
Quote from: ethan on February 28, 2005, 12:53:57 PM
Quote from: Tim on February 28, 2005, 12:50:14 PM
so say I have dirve 1 and drive 2, with drive 1 mirrored on drive 2, can I store anything on drive 2 or is it reserved just to mirror drive 1?

Just a mirror of drive 1...so basicly you give up half your space for the guarentee that if one drive goes bad you still have your data.

-e

that's what I thought, doesn't interest me in the least then...
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2005, 03:06:07 PM »
Quote from: Tim on February 28, 2005, 02:57:32 PM


that's what I thought, doesn't interest me in the least then...


Tim:

Why not?  To me, this seems a hell of a lot easier to set up and maintain than a single drive backed up to dvd disks (~62 dvd disks per 250gb drive), but would provide pretty much identical protection were a hard drive to fail (simply slap in a second and let the system "re-raid" it for you).  Only real way to have a catastrophic failure on a raid array like this would be for both the drives to fail at the exact same time. 
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2005, 03:25:38 PM »
it's cost prohibitve at the moment and I don't run a desktop anymore. I didn't mean to be completely dismissive, in a few years when I have the space it will certainly be more enticing.
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Re: Somehow lost about 40 gigs of music... anyone have any advice?
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2005, 04:40:50 PM »
Quote from: dnsacks on February 28, 2005, 01:49:00 PM
anybody aware of a raid solution (software or hardware) available for drives mounted as usb2 external drives? 

People have raided ipod shuffles, so I bet it'd work with usb2 drives, assuming all things are the same.
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