On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have one external drive for all my photos. The thing I worry > about is it > is in a external drive case, slim. No fan that I can see or hear > and I think > it gets hot. This is worrying me more and more. But it was the > typical type of > external HD case that Fry's sold. There must be something better, > though.
Marnie, I got my current pair of Seagate 500s from Fry's for about $190 apiece. Good enclosures: Dual interface USB 2.0 and FireWire 400, fan cooled, auto power switching, etc. In the heat we had last summer, I was getting darn worried with some of my drives in non-fan-cooled enclosures. Seems quite risky. I would strongly suggest that you acquire a second external drive and back up your photo work to it. One drive failure with everything on it is a disaster, one drive failure when you have a complete backup on a second drive is just an expensive PITA. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
