| TheBang |
12-09-2010 02:06 PM |
Re: fucking itunes blew away all my music
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Originally Posted by 34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j
(Post 148185)
Could you explain? Like, if your house sets on fire or your computer randomly blows up you're right. But for 99% of harddrive failures, RAID is probably better than a backup.
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As you illustrated, the problem is that RAID only protects against hard drive failures. There are many other reasons for data loss that RAID cannot protect against. A prime example being this thread. User error (or rogue program?) deletes whole folder of music. I'm assuming that if bas had not had the music (essentially backed up) on his iPod, that the data loss would have been permanent.
Another example is, files you intentionally delete, but find you later need/want. A couple months ago, I processed some audio files and burned some of them to audio CD for my wife for a court case, and then promptly deleted them, because I thought that was it. A few weeks later she came back to me and said, oh, can you burn some of the ones to CD that I didn't ask you to initially, because I didn't think I needed them, but now I do? Instead of having to go back and recreate all the work, I just pulled all the files out of backup, and burned the new ones she wanted. |
