[s-cars] NAC- need advice on photo workstation, RAID and some other ???s

[matt ludwig]

these are my *exact* thoughts, Teddy. really nice way to summarize as  
well ( i am busy trying to move back to the U.S. at the moment)

Taka- i know you are really leaning toward having a scalable, robust  
system- the only short-side i see is exactly what Teddy outlines.  
RAID, while very robust and powerful in what it can do, should really  
not be your safety net. this is great, but server HDs are far less  
prone to failure than desktops/notebooks. the real benefit you  
leverage w/ a server farm as we have outlined is you are in control  
to a finite level of the automations and true data transfer.

i know you have said otherwise (and for very good reasons, believe  
me) that you think another route is more suited to you. but given  
your descriptions of where you want this to be in 1, 2 + years- i  
think this sort of thing might be better.

just my 2 soles....


sincerely,


matt.
1995.5 S6 Avant
Lima, Peru


On 12Jun , 2006, at 5:32 PM, Theodore Chen wrote:

>
> there are many different ways to skin this cat.  my preference  
> would be
> to rely on backup software (like Retrospect) first before relying  
> on RAID,
> because RAID doesn't protect you against application or user  
> errors, only
> disk failures.  i can't remember the last time i had a desktop HD  
> fail,
> but i've had OS/software errors that resulted in file corruption.   
> with
> a RAID 1 configuration, for example, you'll just have two copies of  
> the
> corrupted file.  RAID 4 and 5 will give you the corrupted file striped
> across several disks.
>
> -teddy