<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Hello fellow K12ltsp'ers,</DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=unmark></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV>Currently, all of my student's files (and some of mine) are spinning on an old 80GB drive in the smb-ldap PDC with no backup and no redundancy. I can barely sleep at night. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We are starting a online student portfolio project next year that will add lots of data that needs to be safely stored, backed up, etc... </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any suggestions for size, type of drives, should I stick them in the PDC and just use software RAID or do I need some kind of Hardware solution? Should I buy some kind of external drive array? How will I know if something goes wrong? and what is the best way to backup all of this data? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We are a single site independent charter school with a maximum enrollment of 320 students K-12. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance for your suggestions,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nick Fenger</DIV> <DIV>Full Time Teacher and Full Time Technology Coordinator (I'm cloned ;)</DIV> <DIV>Trillium Public Charter School</DIV> <DIV>Portland, OR</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></div></body></html>