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March 8th, 2006

RAID for Photographers – A Primer

Posted by Ben in

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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