Digital Drive

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I ran a RAID configuration at home for a while, then

Posted by E-Stat on March 2, 2017 at 12:11:51:
Realized it was silly to run two spindles simultaneously for many reasons. Unlike a business application where data is constantly changing, digital libraries are pretty static.

Rather than burning through the MTBF of the mirrored drive, I now keep multiple offline copies via USB hard drives. Each one is used once per month for about an hour for incremental changes. They should last a whole lot longer. :)