Raid 5 disk array mirrored at a different location. This gives great speed, (it writes and reads to all disks at once), redundancy (one drive can fail in each array, giving time to hot replace) and space (only 1 drive in each array is used for parity). If you need a little cloud storage then mega gives 50gb for free, and works on Android and everything else (i think)
Best Steve On 15 Apr 2016 6:09 pm, "John Leonard" <j...@johnleonard.uk> wrote: > A question: > > Most of my recording is now 4 four or six channel 96/24 and currently, I > back up from the recorders to bare hard drives via an eSATA docking > station, which means that I have an every-increasing pile of hard drives, > as I back up every thing important twice. I’ve pretty much standardised on > 2TB drives; a mixture of Seagate and Western Digital (I keep telling > myself that it’s cheaper than a reel of 1” Ampex 456, but at the rate that > I’m piling the drives up, it’s still a bit daunting.) > > Although this system works pretty well, and I use DiskTracker to keep a > record of what’s where, It does mean that I just have a shelf full of 3.5” > hard drives, which is a) a bit messy and b) a bit of a risk. The cloud is > an option - or at least it will be once I get my super-duper-whizzy even > faster Virgin upgrade, but even at the current upload rate of 10 MB, a full > drive takes days to upload and then it’s not exactly quick to get it back. > > Given that I don’t have an educational establishment with huge servers, > anyone got any reasonably-priced suggestions for storage? > > Ta, > > John > > > Please note new email address & direct line phone number > email: j...@johnleonard.uk > phone +44 (0)20 3286 5942 > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160415/703abf1c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
