On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:10 AM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > Hard drive RAID arrangement seems to be the safest > Way to go.
I haven't gone that route yet, but know many photographers using RAID setups. I'm still just copying everything to two drives. Works fine at my current volume. > > Just using individual HDDs aint. I have had three > HDDs fail on me in last 20 yrs, I have (yet) to > Have a single CD or DVD become unreadable during that time ( I do > Data verify when I burn them). I've had three hard drives fail in ten years. One was the internal drive in a Mac that was destroyed by a worm. One was a semi-failure of an external drive. Turned out the controller in the housing was what went and just moving the drive to a replacement housing (less than $ 30) solved the problem. Third drive just stopped working. Like you, I have yet to have a CD or DVD become unreadable. My oldest ones date from about 1993 and still read just fine. I archived a lot of images, though, on Kodak PhotoCD, and I understand that the file format they used won't be supported much longer. So at some point I have to open all of those hundreds of files and save them as TIFF. I don't look forward to that. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
