I've been thinking lately of a set-up where my old computer could be a networked drive box. I could put it wherever in my house and just have it networked wired (or wireless) to my main system. I'd have a couple drives in there and not much else. This would allow me to have another whole computer box somewhere with all my data backed-up. Of course, I haven't DONE this yet but hey, I'm still in the planning stage. Next stage- acquisition.
Cory Waters wishes it wasn't 95 degrees F outside. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 3:47 PM Subject: Back from the Grave > Last Wednesday I got up and flipped on my PC only to hear a POP and then > smell smoke. A few hours later my worst fears were realized - the power > supply (which had been going strong for almost 4 years) had fried - and it > took down almost everything in the PC case. My three hard drives, scsi > card, and video card were fried. The hard drives won't even power up. The > CD-R was still alive and, remarkably, the main board was only partially > fried (the AGP slot is dead but it will actually boot with a PCI video > card) and the CPU and memory seem to have been unaffected. > > I'm now back up and running with a new and better PC bought with money I > really did not want to spend. And while I backed up the obvious big stuff - > like my image database - that would take tons of time to recreate, there > are loads of little things (like my email / address book) that I never > backed up. I also lost my most recent CP990 shots (no remorse - nothing > there of value) and a month's worth of scans... My old backup strategy was > to copy stuff onto another drive, figuring that if there was a failure it > would just be a drive failure - never dreamed that the whole PC could be > wiped out in one fell swoop like that. > > Inching towards the *ist-D, I realize that it will be imperative to > immediately store the images on some sort of removable image - probably a > couple copie sof it at that. I have many boxes of slides and sleeves of > negatives sitting here - loosing the stuff on the PC is a major pain, but > it is all recreatable. Loosing actual images - now that would be bad! > > - MCC > ----- > Mark Cassino > Kalamazoo, MI > ----- > > Photography: > > http://www.markcassino.com > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003
