Chapter 4 Creating the Digital Archive Part 2: Hardware Configurations

My Rig
Location Hardware
In the Studio
Boot Drive Backups

Choosing a storage medium
Keeping it Live and Local
Balancing Cost and Performance
Establishing a File Server
Going "Network"
Get this Server Started
Power Server
Drive Configuration: JBOD, RAID, or NAS?
JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)
NAS (Networked Attached Storage)
Considering System Configurations

Choosing Your Hardware
Hard Drive Cases
Internal Drives
Single Drive Externals
Multiple Drive Externals
Hard Drive Power Supplies
Hard Drive Interfaces
Internal Hard Drive Interfaces
External Drive Interfaces
Communicating between Computers: Ethernet and Wireless Networks

How Safe is Safe? Backing Up Your Archive
Understanding Threats to Your Archive's Well Being
Device Failure
Viruses
Encoding/decoding Glitches
Lightning Strike/Voltage Surge
Theft
Fire/Water Damage
Human Error
Backup Strategies
Working, or Incremental File Backup
Archive Backup
Boot Drive Backup
Choosing Backup Media