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data back-up

jlm

Workshop Member
my drobo is getting long in the tooth and i am looking for the latest advice, two things:

on-site raid array, 1TB's is plenty
off-site data storage providers maybe 1 Tb max

tnx
 
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stephengilbert

Active member
I was going to recommend the G-Tech G-Safe raid, but I see they've discontinued it. They have other raid solutions, but they sound like overkill for what you want.
 

Leigh

New member
I'm running a Western Digital dual 2TB drive operating RAID 0 (fully mirrored). Works fine.

- Leigh
 

kdphotography

Well-known member
I like to keep things simple.

I would look at solutions offered by Wiebetech; I like their two bay, hot swappable, trayless Raid options. I ended up picking up a Sans Digital Mobile Raid MR2UT+(B), which has both eSata and USB3 interfaces. I call this my "bottomless pit" as when the drives fill up, I simple pull them, store them in cases, and insert new hard drives.

ken
 

Shashin

Well-known member
I use a Lacie 4 Big Quadra with three drives, one drive being kept off site, the other two being in a RAID array. I bring the off-site drive back once a month to swap and be rebuilt. I have a 3TB unit for me and a 1TB unit for my wife.
 

MGrayson

Subscriber and Workshop Member
After months struggling with a Synology NAS (the NAS worked fine, but time machine backups to it kept getting corrupted and the system wanted to rebuild them, I lost confidence in the process. And Ethernet is slow.), I now keep one of two 3TB backup disk inside the Mac Pro and rotate them out. With the drive mounted on a slide tray, it takes very little time to swap internal drives. Oh, yes, I have only 900GB of stuff to back up. Proof that I don't take enough pictures :facesmack:

If the Mac Pro ever comes out with Thunderbolt, I'll get a fast external RAID, but keeping a bunch of laptops and the Mac Pro backed up is currently a pain.
 

PeterA

Well-known member
I use a PegasusR6 system - 6 X 2 TB in Raid 5. simple relatively cheap and with thunderbolt expandable. Lighting fast - I use the system as a working drive even though I have a 750GB SSD card in my powerbook. I back this up to another Pegasus . These boxes are cheap and perfect for a plug and play guy who isn't a puter nerd.
 
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