Posted by Scott Dorsey on 07/18/06 13:50

UncleMike <laughograms@gmail.com> wrote:
>Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> If you have a critical system where you can't survive a drive failure
>> because even the loss of a day to reload from backup is a problem, then
>> get a RAID unit. And make sure the RAID unit is properly set up; I have
>> seen so many folks who have RAID systems set up with no redundancy because
>> they don't realize that they need it.
>
>Or because they are using the RAID in a video editing rig for the speed
>of data access rather than the redundancy.
>
>If the source tapes are logged properly and stored carefully a drive
>crash is little more than a (potentially expensive and time-consuming)
>nuisance in such a scenario. Fix the crashed drive, redigitize and
>voila. Happens quite a lot in networked systems actually.

Disk space is cheap. Your time to re-import an lost hour of video is
expensive. There's no reason you can't have BOTH high speed AND redundancy.
--scott
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