the location were it is less then a block from the firehouse, only one house between, we got an array of password locked doors, there isnt floods(rising more than one floor, we do occasionally get 2 in flash floodS, 2 of the stripe raids are backed up on 4 x 1 tb usb 2.0 external drives, and all my system contains is installed video games and video game saves. i am a video game fantic. each stripe raid is a single 4u 16 x 250 gb flash drive array. it may be turned so it holds what am building off feddora7 Mike Miller wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Anna Edwards wrote: >> and that he does alot of. he has this server virtual raid so the same >> data is on 16 stripe raids, which are translated into smb by a dif >> server. remember i am the he dude. my grandma is considering signing a >> contract to the school to set it. it is rather redundent. > I'm not sure I understand that configuration, but once you have a stable > disk array and there is very little chance that it will fail, you still > have to worry about a couple of other kinds of problems. One is theft of > the computer. Another is catastrophic damage to the computer (e.g., > flood, fire, tornado). So if you are going all out to be sure that the > data are protected, you have to keep copies of your files in a second > fairly distant physical location. > Mike ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs