Time for a RAID backup

1 year 5 months ago #745293 by Wyrick Photography
Happy Sunday peeps.  I need to get my photo storage under control.  I'm currently using just a bunch of random portable drives and it's a royal PITA to find photos.   So I'm going to just get something that is scalable and all in one place.  

Which RAID set up do you have?  

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1 year 5 months ago - 1 year 5 months ago #745294 by Razky

Wyrick Photography wrote: Happy Sunday peeps. I need to get my photo storage under control. I'm currently using just a bunch of random portable drives and it's a royal PITA to find photos. So I'm going to just get something that is scalable and all in one place. 
Which RAID set up do you have?  

Peeps?? My photos are catalogued by subject, stored on external drives. Retrieval is simple.


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1 year 5 months ago #745302 by TCav
Best choice is a server. Yes, the OS, all by itself costs $800, but with redundant power supplies, redundant network adapters, and redundant hard drives, there's nothing safer and easier to manage.


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1 year 5 months ago #745323 by TCav
Whatever RAID solution you pick, be sure to leave one drive as a Hot Spare in case one of the drives in the RAID fails.


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1 year 5 months ago #745324 by miscat
Best leave it to someone else. That's what we do in IT nowadays; instead of maintaining infrastructure and keeeping it all update and secure we use Azure or AWS. In your case pay to use a cloud storage solution. OK it costs but so does buying and maintaining hardware.

TC


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1 year 5 months ago #745327 by Wyrick Photography
Which set up are you all using brand wise please?  

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1 year 5 months ago - 1 year 5 months ago #745339 by TCav

Wyrick Photography wrote: Which set up are you all using brand wise please?  

Dell PowerEdge T350 or better, redundant power supplies, redundant ethernet adapters, redundant hard disk drives.
Two drives mirrored (RAID 1) as Drive C:, for the OS and applications.
Three drives in a RAID 5 array as Drive D: for data. (The more drives in a RAID 5 array, the sooner two drives will fail, so you'll lose everything. Keep it to three or four drives, and no more.)
One drive as a Hot Spare.


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1 year 5 months ago #745387 by Prago
You should look at Synology NAS systems.  

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1 year 5 months ago #745485 by No Show
I have a 4 bay RAID set up from Synology.  It's 3 years old and works great.  Although I think we will need to upgrade to larger drives soon. 

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