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Posted: Wed Feb 6th, 2013 06:48

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Robert wrote: Whops...

Well I just sent my accounts data to the iCloud... Backed it up to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A lump of plaster just fell on the desk? Frightened the daylights out of me/

I have been installing insulation on the walls all day, may have something to do with that.

Unless it was the iCloud? :devil:

Probably the iCloud falling apart.
Should be a tornado then it sucks everything into it!!
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Posted: Thu Feb 7th, 2013 08:38

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jk wrote:
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To answer your question currently I have
Music ~1TB
Video ~2TB
Programs ~3TB
Images since 2000 ~2TB
Scanned images prior to 2000 (work incomplete) estimated ~4TB

So 16TB is OK.

Using individual disks (USB/Firewire attached) is not an option as I dont want the spaghetti this generates and also it means I need to double up to replicate each disk.

I dont like using disks larger than 2TB as they are bigger risk (1TB disks are easy to handle but getting less easy to source).

So what about something like this - configured as separate drives.
Wouldn't the drives then be separate without the spaghetti?

http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/06/raid.rack.fits.four.drives.in.1u.tower.fits.five.in.portable.stack/

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Posted: Thu Feb 7th, 2013 10:25

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That units looks fine Doug but it only holds 4 drives.
My Drobo holds 8 and allows me to adds on the fly.

RAID arrays usually require a rebuild on addition of a new drives unless it is a hot spare. This Addonics unit is RAID so I guess the same applies. I used Addonics stuff in the past and it was good.

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Posted: Mon Feb 11th, 2013 04:49

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A final update on my CS6 installation saga. Having got CS6 up and running on my second drive with a new OS I looked at the old drive and pondered where the conflicts were. Thinking it may be from other Adobe products- CS3 LR4 and Elements11 - I uninstalled all Adobe bits on the old drive and hey presto CS6 would install. Reinstalled LR4 and am now a happy bunny.
Now back to where I started thinking about Drobo's and my back up needs which are really archival rather than current projects in my retirement. Maybe a new external HD would suffice to replace the one that is starting to groan at startup.:baffled:

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Posted: Mon Feb 11th, 2013 07:12

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Hi Bob, Good you have sorted AND found an explanation for the Cs6 installation issue. Most of my computers have second partitions with backup OS's on. It gives me a fallback and also on some of them the ability to run Snow Leopard or earlier for the occasions I need to run 'obsolete' applications like MS Office 2003, a CAD application I have and also the ability on the earlier versions of Mail to bounce eMails, a very useful feature which despite protests, Apple have now dropped.

Regarding storage, I faced a similar dilemma a while back, I separated my files into types.

Backups of all my floppy disks, CD's and DVD's, together with every file I have from previous systems. That lot went onto one 500Gb drive and I call it my "Archive Drive".

Everything inc. research links, Word and other text files, all image files and documents connected with the book on another drive called "Botanic".

Two 1Tb drives which I alternate for my current use Time Machine" which gives me a backup and 'rewind' of my current data. I swap these drive with one usually at another location.

A 1 Tb RAID 0 drive which is my day to day data drive where all my current data is kept. The RAID 0 is for speed, two 500Gb drives interleaved for speed.

So I only keep active data on my day to day drive and all my infrequently used data is on separate drives and only a click of a switch away.

Everything is also backed up onto other drives and and the original disks are stored safely. I would say I have everything at least three times and some stuff many more than that.

Personally I wouldn't store any critical data on a proprietary system without very secure backup. The chances of recovering data from a disk crash in an array would be low and expensive.

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