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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Considering raid. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Raid 1 uses 2 drives with all data written to both. Protection of loss of 1 drive, but only get storage area of 1 drive.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For RAID to be "efficient" 4 or more drives are needed. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Did I get that right?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>
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On Thursday, September 23, 2021, 10:24:28 AM PDT, Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp23f4100dyiv6637247316"><div><div>NAS should be faster? USB3 is pretty fast. But don't trust just one. Backup to two, or a raid1 mirror of two.<div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp23f4100dyiv6637247316gmail_quote"><div class="ydp23f4100dyiv6637247316yqt8979400834" id="ydp23f4100dyiv6637247316yqt51353"><div class="ydp23f4100dyiv6637247316gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, 9:55 AM <a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a> <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp23f4100dyiv6637247316gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr">A couple years ago, when I last bought a laptop, I thought .5 TB SSD was huge.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Now I have returned from a trip with a camera has a .5 TB memory card. I didn't fill the card, but the photos will exceed the remaining space on the laptop. </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Obviously I need an external drive of some sort. </div><div dir="ltr">USB interface would be simple, but probably slow to transfer videos.</div><div dir="ltr">NAS should be faster. Some models advertise automatic backup and other fancy stuff. Might I have difficulties with that software and Linux machine? Or multiple machines? </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Comments?</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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