RAID enclosure

[supercooled]

um I dont need anything that serious.

Nonsense! Every body could use a 10TB storage unit. You'll never know when you need to download the entire internet.

 

[firestarter]

I want to get a external RAID enclosure for secure backup of my digital content. Any recommendations? Thanks

So, do you want to store your files on your computer AND this RAID box, or are you treating a mirrored drive as your storage and backup?

Mirrored RAID is NOT a backup. If you want a backup think of the following situations:

- What happens if you delete a file?
- What happens if your house burns down / someone steals all your hardware
- What happens if a file gets corrupted?
- What happens if a virus or OS upgrade corrupts all attached disks (like OSX did a few years back with Oxford chipset firewire drives)?

If you're going to buy mirrored storage, you're buying an expensive box containing two drives. Better to buy those two drives separately and back up to each one in rotation, leaving the other somewhere safe outside your house (encrypt the backup if you must, remember the risk of identity theft if it was stolen).

I do this, and leave a disk in my desk at work.

If you rotate backups in this way - you're protected against almost all the above problems. A mirrored drive only protects you from a single drive failure.

 

[jcvmf214]

Nonsense! Every body could use a 10TB storage unit. You'll never know when you need to download the entire internet.

Some day perhaps. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future people kept their entire video libraries on one of those things. I see that as a the next victor in the format wars. which by the way is over for now.