On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Evan Hanson wrote:
So last night the hard drive on my 2.5 year old mac died. Don't even get me started on the fact that Apple knew the seagate drive used on my mac was prone to failures.
Can happen to any individual piece of hardware. I buy Seagate drives ... have had no reliability problems whatever. I have a couple that were OEM in my Apple systems up to ten years old and still going strong (although way too small capacity to be terribly useful anymore).
My last backup was on Jan 30. So I dig out the CD's and guess what. 2 out of 10 of the CD's have failed. I was so angry I was on the verge of cursing.
CDs and DVDs are nowhere near as reliable as good hard drives, in my experience. That said, you should always have two backups of your data. And I've only had a couple of CDs (made in the 1995-1996 time period) actually fail anyway. I have several hundred of them, now up to 15 years old.
As magical as film might be, I've lost a couple thousands of exposures to the deterioration of fragile film in the past 40+ years. In the 20+ years of doing digital imaging (since 1984), I have not lost a single image ... and I have two orders of magnitude more digital images than all of my film work put together.
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