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See that sounds like something I would need, wouldnt I. I mean how much of bitch would it be to loose my entire movie and music collection. I have nearly 400 movies and too many songs to count

Bennoz wrote:Raid is redundancy. Ie if a hard drive dies, you dont loose any data because its spanned across 2 or more drives.

A PC is best then, for this kind of thing.

Although, if the PSU blows / mains power surge, etc, and takes out the HDDs, RAID will not help. Backups to DVDrs are still better.

yotka wrote:

Bennoz wrote:Raid is redundancy. Ie if a hard drive dies, you dont loose any data because its spanned across 2 or more drives.

A PC is best then, for this kind of thing.

Although, if the PSU blows / mains power surge, etc, and takes out the HDDs, RAID will not help. Backups to DVDrs are still better.

Buy a good quality power supply, UPS and surge protector and those wont be an issue.

^^^^^^^^^^^ Seriously.

This ^

Backing the 3 terrabytes of data I have at home is certainly not 'better' to be done on friggen DVDs!

Bennoz wrote:This ^

Backing the 3 terrabytes of data I have at home is certainly not 'better' to be done on friggen DVDs!

It depends on how crucial his data is, and how big they are.
But in his case, money is not an issue, so.... whichever is easier for him.

BTW, I really think we are off-topic.... his thread title is "Wiring for my house" ... and this is now 5 page long.

yotka wrote:

Bennoz wrote:This ^

Backing the 3 terrabytes of data I have at home is certainly not 'better' to be done on friggen DVDs!

It depends on how crucial his data is, and how big they are.
But in his case, money is not an issue, so.... whichever is easier for him.

BTW, I really think we are off-topic.... his thread title is "Wiring for my house" ... and this is now 5 page long.

Well you do realize we are on FTOaus AND in the gibberish corner, what would you expect

Something with TURBO, not RAID.