THX, but five of those suckers would be my retro-computing budget for a whole freakin' year. :-/
Retrospect I've got, but from what I recall, tape backup is prone to loss at failure of the tape drive upon which it was written? :?:
BTW, which is faster, U160 or FW400, IDK offhand and could the faster of the two make any appreciable difference for my needs anyway? I'd rather be able to swap out the Trio and U160 cards as needed anyway. A USB card, an ATA card and my 1080p/1600x1200 capable VidCard with DVD decoder daughtercard are all I really need to keep in this box for anything other than backup time.
Luckily though, I don't have nearly the amount of data to back up that you have. Used server Drivelets I can afford to buy in quantity and I've got three or four PCI SCSI Cards, including that great two channel U160 Card and a handful of those HQ UltraSCSI cables on hand already.
Other than the fact that performance is not in any way necessary for my backup needs, I think I've already decided that two pairs of Savvios for a redundant backup pair beats fooling around with RAID 5 by a long shot. Thanks for confirming that for me, such was my sneaking suspicion.
I've got a drive to drive system up and running already and I just fabbed a packaging solution that rescues both drives from their precarious perch atop the prostrate MetalMiniTower's PSU. I've settled on a plan for building a cold swap four bay 2.5" SCA drive setup that will down atop the MetalMinitower-G3 with its own PSU/Cooling equipment on board. The backup drives I can store within my standard storage stack mailing boxen, one set to keep here and the redundant set offsite at my sweetie's place.
With the backup drives out of the way, I can play striped UltraSCSI RAID Array performance games on the PCI toys and Fast Wide SCSI II on the JackHammered NuBus toys.
I think this will work out well for me, I can do the DVD/RW Burnathon thing before the next backup session to the same drive sets.
That approach is way more my Knuckle Draggin' Hardware Hacker's speed anyway. :-/
Retrospect I've got, but from what I recall, tape backup is prone to loss at failure of the tape drive upon which it was written? :?:
BTW, which is faster, U160 or FW400, IDK offhand and could the faster of the two make any appreciable difference for my needs anyway? I'd rather be able to swap out the Trio and U160 cards as needed anyway. A USB card, an ATA card and my 1080p/1600x1200 capable VidCard with DVD decoder daughtercard are all I really need to keep in this box for anything other than backup time.
Luckily though, I don't have nearly the amount of data to back up that you have. Used server Drivelets I can afford to buy in quantity and I've got three or four PCI SCSI Cards, including that great two channel U160 Card and a handful of those HQ UltraSCSI cables on hand already.
Other than the fact that performance is not in any way necessary for my backup needs, I think I've already decided that two pairs of Savvios for a redundant backup pair beats fooling around with RAID 5 by a long shot. Thanks for confirming that for me, such was my sneaking suspicion.
I've got a drive to drive system up and running already and I just fabbed a packaging solution that rescues both drives from their precarious perch atop the prostrate MetalMiniTower's PSU. I've settled on a plan for building a cold swap four bay 2.5" SCA drive setup that will down atop the MetalMinitower-G3 with its own PSU/Cooling equipment on board. The backup drives I can store within my standard storage stack mailing boxen, one set to keep here and the redundant set offsite at my sweetie's place.
With the backup drives out of the way, I can play striped UltraSCSI RAID Array performance games on the PCI toys and Fast Wide SCSI II on the JackHammered NuBus toys.
I think this will work out well for me, I can do the DVD/RW Burnathon thing before the next backup session to the same drive sets.
That approach is way more my Knuckle Draggin' Hardware Hacker's speed anyway. :-/