>And I'm not confident enough in the abilities of > surge protection gear.
Not even with a backup battery power supply? Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
