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Hard Drive Imaging Product Review: DeepSpar, Atola and ddrescue |
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DeepSpar Disk Imager vs Atola Imager vs GNU ddrescue
DeepSpar Challenges:
- traditionally challenging to find a compatible system board, now includes a PCI-E1x ATA controller
- no way to remotely monitor a running system
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RAID 5 - Is Your Data Safe? |
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Many different technologies have been created to help reduce the chances of data loss. It has been openly accepted that there is no perfect storage medium; yet, many technicians will use RAID 5 and swear by it. The idea of having two points of failure seems like a safe bet, providing that the drives don't go through a common catastrophic event. However, it does seem odd that if RAID 5 were a sure bet, why do banks, hospitals and universities do nightly backups of their RAID 5 servers with high end SCSI hard drives? |
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Current Trends in Data Loss |
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A bit more than a year ago, if asked, "what percentage of projects are physical problems verses logical?", we would have responded with a 60/40 split. It seems that those numbers have changed pretty significantly over the past year, not for the better, and are now at the 80/20 split.
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