Actually, encryption these days is hard to break. Just as k the NSA. (It is more cost effective to bribe to get the data.) Even password protection is hard to break. Some d isgruntled San Francisco employee refused to give up a pa ssword. Experts spent weeks trying to get around the pass word. The employee went to jail and still wouldn't give i t up. Eventually the employee, while still in his cell, h ad a one on one with the mayor and gave up the password.
There is some question regarding the longevity of driv es that are not running. Much like a car that sits idle f or years, will it work. There is a technology known as MA ID, which IIRC stands for massive array of idle drives. Library science is a lot more than cataloging these day s. -----Original Message----- From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" < lau...@advancenet.net> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:48:13 To: <li...@lazygranch.com> Subject: [filmscanners] RE : Advice on scanner settings Encryption can be done lo cally; but what can be encrypted can be unencrypted if s omeone really wants to. Given the rash of allegedly secu re information that has managed to get publically distri buted these days with respect to major supposedly high s ecurity operations such as banks, corporations, governme ntal agencies that have lost confidential secure data, I would not dismiss security as being not much of an issue . Of course there is always the problem of the hard dr ives and storage facilities at these online off-location data storage operations going bad, going down when you need to retrieve the data, or just getting corrupted des pite any and all precautions. -----Original Message--- -- From: filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk [mailto:film scanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of li...@lazygra nch.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:57 AM To: lau...@advancenet.net Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings Security isn't much of an issue t hese days since you coul d encrypt locally. Goin out of business is very likely. M ediastor was in the same busi ness and went under. ---- -Original Message----- Fro m: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <lau...@ad VANCENET.NET> Date: Th u, 26 Feb 2009 10:23:29 To: <l i...@lazygranch.com> Su bject: [filmscanners] RE: Advice on scanner settings >I'd like to point out that I neve r had a Seagate produ ct fail. Of >course, that could be luck. They come with 5 year warranties. I have had a c ouple of them go b ad; but I have had a number of brands g o bad. Hard dr ives after all are mechanical devices; an d their intern al parts do wear out, do get damaged, and do get overhe ated. Some brands go bad sooner than others even if th ey have extended long warrantees. When they d o it is a pain to send them back for warrantee service a nd to l ose the data on them. >The offsite service is handy in the event of fire or theft. Yes, except if th ey g o out of business or have security issues, which are d istinct possibilities in this day and age. Like so man y others, I have found that many services offer good rat es and terms, good service and security, and the like wh en they are new and trying to establish themselves a nd a client base. However after the introductory offer or pe riod, things change with pricing going up, terms changin g, service and security declining, etc. By th en, you ca n terminate your service or move to a differ ent online s torage operation if things change to your d isliking; but they count on the inconvenience factor a nd inertia to ke ep you even if things change for the w orst. Most people overstay their welcome due to the i nconvenience of movi ng their data from those storage fa cilities to new ones or purchasing additional drives to store the data on at h ome or at an external location l ike a bank vault. - ----Original Message----- From : filmscanners_ow...@halft one.co.uk [mailto:filmscanne rs_ow...@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of gary Sent: Thursd ay, February 26, 2009 2:05 AM To: lau...@advancenet.ne t Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner setting s I'd like to point out that I never had a Seagate pr oduct fail. Of course, that coul d be luck. They come w ith 5 year warranties. Of course , I probably just cu rsed one of my drives by mentioning I had no failures. I've built PCs for people that would s pend the extra m oney for a Seagate and had the drives ar rive DOA. More than once mind you. One was from IBM, and the other F ujitsu, a company I thought had it's act tog ether. If you get external drives, consider spending a bit mor e and get esata. I have this general distrust of USB. http://www.carbonite.com/ These people advertis e he avily on http://techguylabs.com/radio/pmwiki.php I have no idea if the service is any good, but it is onli ne o ffsite storage, and relatively cheap. Offer code I b el ieve is Leo, but you could just listen to any of his p odcasts and get the code. The offsite service is handy in the event of fire or theft. Tony Sleep wro te : > On 26/02/2009 li...@lazygranch.com wrote: >> I just bought three 1.5 terrabyte drives > > RAID can a dd res ilience but no way can it be considered safe, so don't > forget the other 4! > > Here I have: > 3 x 1TB RAID3 = 2TB > 2 x 1TB for backup (on another LAN PC ) > 2 x 1T B for offsite backup. > > So that's 7 x 1T B for 2TB of storage. I don't trust HDD's much. > > -- > Regards > > Tony Sleep > http://tonysleep.co.uk > > ------- --------------------------------------- ------------------ ------------ ------------ Unsubscri be by mail to listse r...@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscr ibe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest ' (as appropriate) in th e message title or body - -------------------------- ----------------------------- ---------------------------- ---- Unsubscribe by mail t o listser...@halftone.co.uk, w ith 'unsubscribe filmscan ners' or 'unsubscribe filmscann ers_digest' (as appropr iate) in the message title or body ----------------- --------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halft one.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscr ibe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Un subscribe by mail to listser...@halftone.co.uk, with 'uns ubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_dige st' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body