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Originally Posted by Z-man
Incidentally, I am a SAN/Storage architect for my company, and have been involved in enterprise-level storage for close to 20 years. In my opinion, the best way to protect data is Raid technology, combined with data duplication in an offsite facility. But while this methodology works for a corporation, it can get too costly for the average consumer. Hence the cloud, which typically will offer at least Raid technology, and possibly data duplication.
-Z-man.
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I respect your credentials Z. I will offer up that RAID is not a sure thing and I was a victim to a massive RAID failure while supporting the Marines in Korea. I was the late shift on a 24hr watch and had to transfer application servers to the lone functional server HW after 2 drives died simultaneously on a RAID 5 configuration at 3AM...just before the brief.... I became a smoker again for the next 12 hours...LOL.
The Cloud offers massively replicated data with failsafes. Short of a global catastrophe your data will be there...even if you are not.
