==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But, > BE VERY CAREFUL about the quality of disk you buy, if that is going to be > your only copy of the data. > DO NOT THINK that you can't lose a RAID array; I have seen it happen, twice. > It depends TOTALLY on the quality of the controller card in the RAID array. > If it goes south, all you've got is a bunch of unrelated magnetized bits on > your disk. I second the motion. We've had RAID controllers go belly-up before, too. Eugh. > And for sites that have ARCHIVE or HSM data (which may not exist any more on > the client machines), there is NO magnetic media reliable enough that you > can be safe with just 1 copy (except maybe those tapes they put in airline > black-boxes, but I don't know where to buy those :>). That's a wire spool. And unfortunately it's a loop; (like an 8-track) so it's not really useful for us. - Allen S. Rout
