![]() Good: easy to use software, decent upload speed, good pricingīad: does not want to install into server OS (Windows Server), lack support for linux A good balance between speed and easy of use. ![]() No much hiccup and I manage to upload over 300GB of data during their 30 days trial. The backup speed I had with them is also quite decent. You basically just set it up and then let it run. Upon testing, I find their backup software to be like what most said. It was recommended by some review sites and got a lot of praise. ![]() Some I would just skip due to the price structure being not attractive to me.Ĭomment: This is actually the first on-line backup solution provider that I tested. Bear in mind that I have not tried all of them. Okay, let’s look at each of the backup solution providers one by one. With little time of mine between work and play, I manage to test out a few and I would like to comment on them. I came across such a backup solution a year ago and has been looking into using them. Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, backing-up valuable data into these service provider is getting easier and not to mention CHEAPER. It was PITA then and is PITA now and will always be PITA. This is a good idea and I am sure many have thought of such a backup solution long when tapes are pain in the ass to manage. On-line backup solution has been getting more and more popular recently. For those who are still using RAID5, it is time to change to a better RAID system or at the very least have a good disaster recovery in place. I do not need to depend on other drives in order to recover few files in the array. Cause anytime, I take one of the drives out, I can totally read all the files in it. Better alternative would be RAID6 or RAID10.įor now, my choice of RAID would be RAID10. Depending on whether it’s hardware RAID or software RAID. If the controller died, that whole array might not work. RAID5 are dependent on the controller.hotspares are totally neccessary for RAID5.Out of some of my experience using RAID5, I can say I will stay away from RAID5 given the choice. Years later, I build another RAID5 system in my home. But I got a serious lecture and they had to rebuild some important data from various locations filed in local PC. Naturally management did not approve of that recovery. On top of that, the price they quote, well.let’s say we can buy a few new servers with it. The said they can try to recover the data but no guarantee. So I attempted to take drives to recovery centers. Screwed for not having proper disaster recovery placed. One of the remaining 2 drives failed as well. A few days passed by and then something terrible happened. So I had a trip around looking for replacement in second hand shops. The replacement quoted by vendor is crazy expensive. As with the nature of fast moving technology, it is hard to find a replacement drive. With the inexperience that I am, we did not have any hotspares not coldspares. So we are chugging along with the 2 remaining drives. In one miserable day, one of the drive in the RAID5 went dead. Everything went well and fast forward to more than 5 years later, the drives begin to show signs of aging. Well, RAID5 is a viable option since it allow 1 drive to fail anytime and we had RAID5 running with 3 drives. Naturally, RAID5 comes to mind as it was the “right” thing to do for storage redundancy. Years ago in the 2000’s, I was building server for the company I was working with. I wanted to quote from one of my experience on using RAID5 and how I think RAID5 is not a viable solution anymore in this modern era where drive technology has advanced by leaps and bound since the days of tapes. Anyway, a lesson in RAID is not what I wanted to tell in this “Experience” post. But it is a viable solution for online redundancy to protect against hardware failure. It was during the time when drives are expensive. RAID ( redundant array of independent disks, originally redundant array of inexpensive disk) is a storage system developed in the 80’s.
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