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March 8th, 2006

RAID for Photographers - A Primer

Posted by Ben in General

This article, split into the following seven sections is designed to provide an overview of what is needed to have an effective and reliable hard-disk-based image archive for photographers using RAID volumes…

1. The risks of data-loss for photographers

2. RAID - What it is, what it does do, what it doesn’t do, and why it is useful

3. Backup strategies and software

4. Hard-drive interfaces

5. Network Attached Storage (NAS)

6. Roll-your-own NAS/File-server

7. What hardware to choose

I welcome any comments, corrections, advice, experiences, or good products not mentioned… Please leave a comment.

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