I'm a digital archivist and I'm responsible for 100 TB of data. Our whole media library is housed on disk arrays. This means if a single hard drive in the array dies, the other drives in the array can recreate it from a redundant copy spread across all the other drives. We also have an off site backup on normal hard drives. We haven't lost a bit of data in ten years. (Knock on wood!)
As time goes by, I think we'll see data servers built into our houses that have redundant arrays and automatic cloud backup built in. We won't have to think about storing or backing up data. It will all be done for us.
Last edited by bigshot; 08-26-2016 at 04:43 PM.
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