[olug] DVD Ripping

T. J. Brumfield enderandrew at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 19:00:11 UTC 2008


I'll likely be going the RAID5 route which isn't all that secure as
far as not losing data.  Having tape in addition to RAID5 would make
me feel better.

-- T. J.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unrelated / OT.
>
> For a while I backed up to CD's at home.  After noticing bit rot on a couple
> CD's, I grew.... annoyed and don't particularly trust optical media these
> days either :(.
>
> I hate the thought of backing up data to any magnetic media (ie: I started
> hating floppies around age 6 or 7)... so... the prospect of backing up to
> hard drives and similar seems quite... blargh as well.  And, I don't
> particularly care for tape either.  Evil magnetic rubbish :).  And evil bit
> rot on optical.
>
> So - I don't have a currently active backup system heh.  I instead just rely
> on every system running RAID1/RAID5 to keep everything happy... and assume
> my OS won't eat my system :).
>
> If I were to choose one, it would undoubtedly be some kind of NAS or similar
> in a RAID array... powering it up on a schedule to handle maintenance like
> replacing failed drives, etc.  This way failed media wouldn't be the end of
> the world, and hopefully being a network type device - ya wouldn't have to
> worry about finding appropriate hardware to interface with for your storage
> medium (tape drive, optical drive, etc).  I would also assume that moving
> data from said device to another similar backup device would do well after
> the next technology breakthrough/evolution.
>
> In relation to the SSD write durability thread recently - has there been any
> infos regarding real world life time of flash or other media ?  Would it be
> a possibly viable archive system (even if a bit on the pricey side) ?
>
> -Will
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