[filmscanners] RE: keeping the 16bit scans (bad RAID experience)

["Frank Paris" <frankparis@comcast.net>]

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> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of
> erik.kaffehr@swipnet.se
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:51 PM
> To: frankparis@comcast.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: keeping the 16bit scans (bad RAID
> experience)
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I just want to mention that we had quite a few problems with
> raid at my work. We have lost a significant amount of files
> due to corruption of files on both mirrored RAID-servers we
> had. Fortunately we did have backup on tape media too.
>
> A cheaper option may be to have a couple IDE disks in
> removable mounting frames, I use DK-3 from Computer Cable. My
> idea is that I have two disks let say A and B, and I just
> exchange them time to time.

I don't at all trust the power supply in my PC to behave itself over the
course of its lifetime. I have one 120 GByte drive inside the case,
running off the case's power supply and my other 120 GByte (the backup)
running inside a firewire box with its own external power supply. My
son's power supply shorted out and fried all his internal SCSI drives,
plus everything else inside his computer. He lost 10 years worth of
data. I suppose an errant case power supply could send juice down the
firewire cable to the external hard drive, but that's in the same realm
of probability as my house burning down, possible, but but with
decreasing odds.

Frank Paris
frankparis@comcast.net


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