Time Machine

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 26, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

>
> Interestingly, a quick Google shows a somewhat different opinion  
> (bad) of the La Cie drives (not that I am doubting the experiences  
> reported here).
>
> BTW, I assume these drives are using hardware RAID 0.  I'm not sure  
> that's the best way to go for a backup.  Can they configured to do  
> different RAID levels?

i think it's better to go with the Quadra d2 drives over the Big  
Extreme (at least that is what I was told by a vendor) - but I'm still  
researching

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10869
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10922
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10351

Kevin

http://www.kevincallahan.org/
http://www.kevincallahan.org/software/accessorizer.html
http://www.xeniamara.com/


>
>
> I know it is always a trade-off between space and time ... oops  
> reliability but I would assume, naively, that a four disk RAID 0  
> drive is four times as likely to fail as a regular drive.
>
> Cheers,
> Ashley.
>
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