Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm currently looking into a computer upgrade, including new > disks. As everyone here knows, more space is well worth it. > Unfortunately, money isn't unlimited ::-(. i'm using a pair of fast little disks for my daily work as a a striped pair (meaning your data is history when either drive fails, but you will also get twice the throughput in best case). backups are made to a slow but huge ide disk on the same machine, and onto another networked machine when i'm feeling paranoid. i recommend this if you have a network. it even protects from the "rm -rf * ~ OH SHIT!!!" type of hardware failure :-D > Previously, I've always kept my disks in mirrored pairs to > ensure the death of one disk didn't cost me any data. But looking > around, I'm not sure if I wanna spring the $200 for a pair of 120G+ > drives. But we all know I'll regret getting something smaller. > > Does anyone here have some other clever solutions to getting > reliable archives of recordings? My ardour sessions, even for demos > quickly outpace what will reasonable fit on to CDs. DVD burners are > still way out of my price range. I'm plum out of ideas. > > Thanks for any tips! > -- In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! - Homer Simpson J?rn Nettingsmeier Kurf?rstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)
