Quoting Mike Sheil: > I don't want to get involved in RAIDs > etc but if anyone has recommendations as to suitable HDs - I am not > interested in speed but simple reliability [ and price ! ] I would much > appreciate any comments.
Mike: If you are unwilling, or uninterested in getting into a RAID solution, but do wish to use hard drives I would recommend the following. Get two equivalent sized drives (could be same or different manufacturer). Use one drive as your "working drive" for all image data. Use backup software (retrospect or similar) to back drive 1 to drive 2 every evening while you sleep. For added security, make drive 2 a "removeable" hard drive (there are chassis to do this for PC's) and on a regular basis (at least monthly if not weekly) swap this drive with another that is "off-site." That won't cover all the contingencies, but it's better than using one single hard drive and nothing else. David -- Creating an image database? visit (http://ControlledVocabulary.com/) and join the discussion list, or read areview of the Image Info Toolkit utility at: (http://ControlledVocabulary.com/imagedatabases/imageinfotoolkit.html) David Riecks http://www.riecks.com - http://zillionbucks.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
