My back up disc - an Iomega 1Tb enclosure failed at the weekend - the click of death was heard! I have just fitted a couple of Samsung SATA II 1Tb discs inside my PowerMac G5 in a Sonnet Jive enclosure and set them as a RAID 1 back up - and it all works!! Hardly any down time - these PowerMacs really are a joy to work on. The Iomega has two Seagate Barracuda 500Gb drives in it - all I need to do is work out which one is bust and replace it!

Well done you!  You've obviously lost your calling.
Did you lose half a Tb of music?

Aren't you pleased you have "redundancy" when you're jetting off to your summer hols??? You'll never know how much stuff fails while you're up in the air and the back-up takes over

I'm gonna need to set up a RAID array soon. I've just bought myself a nice shiny new iMac, and I want to back it up along with my 750 gb Firewire drive holding my iTunes library...

I decided to go the E-SATA route initially but the Powermac can actually do this internally - I now have the original drive, a 500Gb second drive and the two 1Tb RAID drives all inside the box. I also have a 750Gb external drive so should have enough space for the moment. I do have one more space  inside though!!

once you go mac , you never go back ! :)

my Lacie 500gb drive with my backup and my itunes library on it failed last week.....

My wife threatened to divorce me last time I added over 1000 CDs to my itunes library.....

Anyone know a good solicitor????

Gary
 

 

I have a ready nas duo ... i sleep welll .... its expensive but worth the money in my opinion ........ It has 1 terrabyte limit but once I hit that I will just moveolder files off ... its mostly videos so i dont have to keep it running and its not super critical .... my CD collextion that I ripped though I safe guard .... same for pictures ......

RAID is the way to go on any Mac or PC.

Drobo is more the way to go! RAID is good but it has some pretty serious drawbacks. DROBO is much easier than conventional RAID arrays, it's relatively cheap and it works very well...