Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:03:51 +0200 From: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine Message-ID: <42D80897.5030109@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <42D7F8F9.40004@dial.pipex.com> References: <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <42D7EBDE.8030807@mac.com> <42D7F8F9.40004@dial.pipex.com>
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- /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools can help you monitor your HDDs - RAID 0 doubles the chances of HDD failure and thereby data loss - DVDs and CDs are chronically unreliable, see the 14/2005 issue of the German c't magazine where they tested CD/DVD burners and media and found out that a lot of media are neither burnable nor readable by a lot of CD/DVD drives - But since you need high performance on your HDDs and backup to tape, you're probably fine - A hybrid approach of backing up data to a separate box and to some removable media is probably the best. And, nowadays at least, not even that expensive, e.g. Mini-ITX boards are cheap and fast enough for this purpose.
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