Dave Clark.com » Backup storage http://daveclark.com Church Media & Tech Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:15:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Back It Up! http://daveclark.com/post/back-it-up/ http://daveclark.com/post/back-it-up/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 21:22:47 +0000 Dave Clark http://thedigitalreformation.com/?p=101 Just got a new backup solution for storing and archiving old videos and media. Our RAID array is filling up pretty fast and we had to do something. This is sort of a short term solution until we can afford more of an enterprise solution.  But, I think its pretty cool none the less.

Basically this is a hard drive cradle for Serial ATA (sata) hard drives. Kind of reminds me of popping in an old Atari cart. =) The beauty of this baby is that it has an eSATA connection. So you can throw files to the drive at basically the same speed as if the drive were physically an internal drive. (3 Gbit/s)

So the dock runs roughly $50 and then you can just load up on 1 terabyte drives from newegg, and back things up to your hearts content.  A 1TB drive is about $220 now.  Not too shabby. So for 1TB of data I am using 2 drives. That way I have 2 copies and then I will sepeate them so they don’t live in the same place. Just in case something happens.

I would encourage everyone to backup anything of importance in some way shape or form. Because it is inevitable that disaster will strike at some point. So use something… Time Machine, Mozy, something.  Also, Mozy Home just went from a beta to a 1.0 for mac users. great for home use!

Link for the Cradle.

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