Plus putting a number of files on the CD DVD and trying to write them all on the surface is a bit of a pain. I tend to run out of room.
I'm opting, at this time in space, more for an external HD option as opposed to internals, just because i have an old system, USB 1 and its terribly slow. It does what i need, producing good quality prints, so i'm staying in the dark ages until i need to poke my head out of my cave and buy a current computer, be it Mac or PC. I think i'm going to get another external, and upload to that, and keep it some were safe. Dave On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The probability of two external hard drives both going down at the > same time are very small. The chances of three doing that are > infinitesimal. > > My system has a terabyte storage internally (2 500G drives arranged as > a RAID 0). It is now continually backed up as I work using a 1T > standalone drive (using Mac OS X "Leopard's" Time Machine backup > system). The photo work is also auto-copied daily and on demand to two > independent external 2T backup drives (set up as a RAID 1 mirrored > set, essentially). That means there are essentially four copies of all > the data that never goes more than 24 hours out of sync. Every few > weeks, I turn on a file system/file verification check that validates > that the data is without errors; it runs overnight and only bugs me if > it finds a problem. > > It's easy to manage and operates transparently. If I were more > paranoid, I'd keep a third archive/backup drive off site and rotate it > with one of the twin mirrored set on a weekly basis. > > CDs/DVDs are simply too small to be useful, have more variable issues > in reliability, and are much more work to manage and keep verified. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
