Setting up a raid. (NLC).

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:14 pm

lol, you can never have too much storage!

The only conceivable way a hard disk failure could make your computer go beep (ie like an alarm clock type of beep) is if the drive had failed and the pc BIOS was reporting an error via S.M.A.R.T. status monitoring.... If this was the case though, it would certainly tell you about it on the screen....

Corranga · Post by **Corranga** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:17 pm

I have fears of this, yet haven;t actually bothered to do anything about it since most answers, well suck...

RAID means if i'm a twat, I loose stuff
HDD means if the HDD fails I loose stuff
DVDR suck the most. They are unreliable and small, and if they fail I loose stuff.
Since i'm getting so good at loosing stuff, i'd likely loose the DVDs too

Basically, I figured that unless you want to spend a decent percentage of your life transferring files to various different back up discs every few weeks, you should live with the fact that you'll eventually loose stuff.

Chris

Blaque · Post by **Blaque** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:22 pm

You should only lose data from your pc once. It is a hard lesson, but when the HDD goes and you have lost all that work, all those photos that you can't get back. Only a fool wouldn't put a back up schedual in place.
HP do an external USB HDD with a "one touch" button back up. Iomega also do an external USB drive that comes with software that will mirror your My Documents folder, and anything else in real time, and does it incramentialy so you can go back to previous versions of documents.
If you want RAID then there's the Buffalo Terastation which will sit on a network, and has hot swap drives.