Oh, no. I still use my old Mavica digital camera for close ups of models, and it uses floppies. I also have a lot of photos stored on them. I've just never transferred them onto my hard drive.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:22 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 36521] Re: Dang ... You mean for coasters, right? JoeG -----Original Message----- From: Paul McCool <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 14 May 2009 5:17 pm Subject: [Papermodels II 36519] Re: Dang ... And to think I still use floppy disks...... Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:04 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 36517] Re: Dang ... Chris, cat, I think both of you make good points. Either method, there are going to be failures. I've backed up to CD's and had Chris' problem of not being able to copy all files off the CD (or DVD) at a later date. I've backed up to HD and not been able to copy everything back over to a new HD. I've backed up to HD and had BOTH fail simutaneously. Thank God for original DVD copies. We have many knowledgeable casual and pro computer folks on this list with many different solutions. Even with HD storage costs as low as they are, setting up an automated RAID array is possibly getting a little out of hand for many - knowledge, time and cost. Then there's also eating up the electricity to keep it all running, electromagnetic radiation, and even the gentle whir of a bank of HDs that can drive you nuts. As more and more people go digital in more of their life, we'll see more folks outfitting their homes with personal network server based solutions. The current crop of home network drives/servers still are not rated high enough for me to do it (or risk it, more like it), but better, less expensive and even easier to set up and use systems are coming - no doubt about that. All said, back up, back up, back up! JoeG -----Original Message----- From: Chris Gutzmer <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 14 May 2009 4:10 pm Subject: [Papermodels II 36515] Re: Dang ... Cat, I disagree with you - why you may ask? because this is a backup! Not the primary copy. The chances of your primary drive and your external drive crashing at the same time are pretty low (yeah I realize it could happen). A hard drive will allow you to backup fulls or incrementals automatically. Burning to dvd is very manually labor intensive process. Plus you need to remember what you backed up and when or just back it all up every time. Also there is a failure rate on your dvd's. I can remember once when I copied my models off to cd and as a test I went to copy them back onto my drive. I have several failures. Have you tested your copies on DVD this way? I have not done it in several years as I was very dissapointed with my results. My backups are now completely automated :) Working in Storage Services for a fortune 500 company I can say that (our) standard practice dictates that only unchanging media should be written to optical media and periodic disaster recovery testing needs to be done. We just phased out the last of our optical media due to problems with the testing and recovery performance (OSAR) Just my two cents (ok - maybe 3) :) Chris On 5/14/09, Gary Pilsworth <[email protected]> wrote: Not that far behind ya Mike !!!!!!!! -------Original Message------- From: Mike Hungerford Date: 05/14/09 19:10:45 To: Papermodels II Subject: [Papermodels II 36495] Dang ... That's today. How many CDs would that take to back up? <G> -- Mike Hungerford http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html For science! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dell Mini Netbooks: Great deals starting at $299 after instant savings! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dell Mini Netbooks: Great deals starting at $299 after instant savings! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
