Where does it all stop?
I recently bought a NAS with RAID 5 to do a number of things:
1) Back up my hard drive.
2) Provide storage for all my digital pics and MP3's
3) Provide centralised access to the pics and MP3's so Mrs Mustang doesnt have to hog my PC to do anything with them.
All was going well until the NAS temporarily died and I had to re-install the operating system. Fortunately all my files survived!! (There is some higher power! ) The interesting part was that the support team from the NAS vendor calmly stated - "Sir we always recommend that our NAS units are backed up". This was despite having paid a few bob in the first place.
The question is, should i have to with RAID in use? How far do I go? I have a 2TB machine so backing up to CD/DVD would be tedious. The approach I would most likely take is to buy some USB hard drives and back up to that but thats more money!
I recently bought a NAS with RAID 5 to do a number of things:
1) Back up my hard drive.
2) Provide storage for all my digital pics and MP3's
3) Provide centralised access to the pics and MP3's so Mrs Mustang doesnt have to hog my PC to do anything with them.
All was going well until the NAS temporarily died and I had to re-install the operating system. Fortunately all my files survived!! (There is some higher power! ) The interesting part was that the support team from the NAS vendor calmly stated - "Sir we always recommend that our NAS units are backed up". This was despite having paid a few bob in the first place.
The question is, should i have to with RAID in use? How far do I go? I have a 2TB machine so backing up to CD/DVD would be tedious. The approach I would most likely take is to buy some USB hard drives and back up to that but thats more money!
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