CIT282-WB Fall 2021

Case Project 4-1: Dealing with a Disk Crash

Jack MacVicar

10/12/2021

In my opinion I would use a bit of the extra money and I would by an extra drive for the

purpose of being a redundant drive. This extra drive would provide a real time fail safe against

hard drive failure rather than an actual pack up of the data. Although there is enough money in

the budget for a backup so I believe we should have one of those too. Imagine one of the

employees accidentally deleted a file. Our redundant drive won’t save the file because it is an

up-to-date copy of the real drive. The backup would have the accidentally deleted file intact on

a separate drive. Therefore, we need a redundant and backup drive. We will also immediately

copy our data on all three of the drives as soon as it is written to the main drive. We should all

change the drives on which the data is written directly, that was we can ensure that the

workload is divided on each drive. This is a fool proof way to protect your data in the future.