I use an extertal hdd with an isolated power supply to help prevent surge damage to the drive and keep the power switch on the ext. drive off except only when transferring data. Never trust a single drive or second drive on the same system. If you get a bad lightning stike or some other power failure you may need to get expensive data recovery off the disk if possible or you may get permanent data loss...
JC OCONNELL [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:38 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Two external HD's or stay with CD's David J Brooks wrote: > My current back up includes transfering files to one external HD, > Maxtor, and to either a CD or DVD depending on the files sizes. > > I'm thinking the CD's and DVD's may go, and add another external and > back up on both. I use the two-hard-drive approach and I'm implementing a DVD "backup-backup" as well. I have my photos on a big-ass internal hard drive and I back them up to an external drive (it's a network drive - slow but good enough for my purposes and I can access it from my laptop anywhere in the house wirelessly). The reason I'm slowly putting everything on DVD as well is for off-site storage - in case of fire or, particularly, lightning. A direct lightning strike could easily fry both hard drives, making backup kind of moot :) This might not be an issue for some people but, Pittsburgh is right on the edge of the Appalachians and we get some wicked thunderstorms here. And I'm not confident enough in the abilities of surge protection gear. -- 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. -- 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.
