March 8th, 2006
RAID for Photographers – A Primer
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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
5. Network Attached Storage (NAS)
6. Roll-your-own NAS/File-server
I welcome any comments, corrections, advice, experiences, or good products not mentioned… Please leave a comment.
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