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05/22/2007 11:59:31 AM · #1 |
wow,starting at absolute zero,two nights ago my hard drive sh_t the bed!,as i was trying to put all my pics on disc,all my secret blue(well mabe brown) ribbon work was gone in an instant, right down the digital drain....no pics at all here to look at,i gotta quit dwelling on it,tearing away from here to go shoot,man...,there was over 1000 of them(personal keepers) im sure,whew!NO WORRIES GUYS,i just needed to bleed a lil..., to see my own blood-so to speak, to get me motivated---time for the new era "NOOBIE STYLE",1-2-3 Go Team Noob! p.s. THAT WONT HAPPEN AGAIN!,im making the proper plan to document my work on discs,GRRRRRRRRR!
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05/22/2007 12:13:48 PM · #2 |
Bummer ... : (
I try to always have two copies of the files -- I copy the pictures from the card to the hard drive, but I don't erase them from the card until after I've also burned them to a CD. |
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05/22/2007 12:15:13 PM · #3 |
I would recommend buying three hard drives:
one to use;
one to keep a live copy on;
one to copy everything onto and send to a relative (remote backup).
Your data may be recoverable by experts (at some cost) if it is particularly valuable. Better luck with your next HD!
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05/22/2007 12:16:42 PM · #4 |
| After my Great Hard Drive Crash of 2006, I installed two hard drives in RAID format, and back up to a third. The point of failure is of course they're all in the same place. Think I'll take the third disk to work.... |
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05/22/2007 12:16:44 PM · #5 |
Plus always make sure you have the second backup at some other location.
1 - Backups dont do much if the house burns down.
2 - 98% of all Firesafes are not digital media rated.
Digital Media firesafes have to keep the internal temperature under 125 degrees the entire time. Which is also why most digital media safes arent rated over 30 minutes.
Originally posted by Melethia:
After my Great Hard Drive Crash of 2006, I installed two hard drives in RAID format, and back up to a third. The point of failure is of course they're all in the same place. Think I'll take the third disk to work.... |
What raid configuration. Raid 0 and 1 if one drive dies you pretty much lose everything on the other due to the data being split.
Message edited by author 2007-05-22 12:18:10. |
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05/22/2007 12:20:47 PM · #6 |
| Duplicate data to each disk, I think. At least that's what I was going for. |
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05/22/2007 12:21:41 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
After my Great Hard Drive Crash of 2006, I installed two hard drives in RAID format, and back up to a third. The point of failure is of course they're all in the same place. Think I'll take the third disk to work.... |
yep - and occasionally swap your backup drive for the one at work in order to keep your remote backup up to date. Some motherboards now come with external hard drive SATA connectors deliberately to allow you to use hard drives as portable media storage.
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05/22/2007 12:21:52 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Duplicate data to each disk, I think. At least that's what I was going for. |
Not sure what configuration does what but I know RAID 5 is one that if you lose one drive it doesnt affect the others.
Either way you said you had a 3rd backup. |
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05/22/2007 12:24:21 PM · #9 |
thanks alot for your comments,was leaning towards an external unit(second drive or more) and the copying to disc idea,hmmmmmm,great ideas guys thnx again,anymore ideas out here????? lol believe me im game for info on the subject,probably another thread somewhere im sure
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05/22/2007 12:30:34 PM · #10 |
Hards drives are so big and cheap now that it's the most economical way ... backing up even 200GB to DVDs will take a lot of time and attention, when you could just copy the whole drive to a second one and go away for a few hours.
I find that as I buy new drives, each one seems about twice as big as the last, so I just copy it over to the new one and still have more than half the disk free for new stuff.
Message edited by author 2007-05-22 12:31:09. |
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05/22/2007 12:43:01 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Hards drives are so big and cheap now that it's the most economical way ... backing up even 200GB to DVDs will take a lot of time and attention, when you could just copy the whole drive to a second one and go away for a few hours.
I find that as I buy new drives, each one seems about twice as big as the last, so I just copy it over to the new one and still have more than half the disk free for new stuff. |
,your right,ive noticed that as well,this one is stupid huge!but unfortunately its empty,lol
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05/22/2007 12:43:09 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
What raid configuration. Raid 0 and 1 if one drive dies you pretty much lose everything on the other due to the data being split. |
RAID 1 as mirroring, and is a fault-tolerant format. Each drive contains a complete copy of the data.
~Terry
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05/22/2007 12:46:42 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
What raid configuration. Raid 0 and 1 if one drive dies you pretty much lose everything on the other due to the data being split. |
RAID 1 as mirroring, and is a fault-tolerant format. Each drive contains a complete copy of the data.
~Terry |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
Not sure what configuration does what |
Thanks as i said earlier wasnt complelty sure which was which. |
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05/22/2007 12:48:00 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Matthew:
yep - and occasionally swap your backup drive for the one at work in order to keep your remote backup up to date. Some motherboards now come with external hard drive SATA connectors deliberately to allow you to use hard drives as portable media storage. |
I'll look for that feature in the next box I buy - thanks for the advice! |
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05/22/2007 02:47:49 PM · #15 |
Flickr. You can't get a cheaper remote backup service; depending on how much you want to send it's either free or $25 a year.
You wouldn't put all your originals on it, but for remote backups of finished pieces, it can't be beat...
With the recent deletion of someone's pictures noted, of course... but that would have to happen at the same time your other media failed to cause a catastrophic loss. |
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05/22/2007 03:00:53 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by eamurdock:
You wouldn't put all your originals on it, but for remote backups of finished pieces, it can't be beat... |
I've been uploading my finished print images to Costco ... and I just figured out that, in addition to the free online storage, you can order archival CDs with any assortment of photos up to 500MB for $2.99 -- I think it has built-in slide-show software for Windows as well ...
My other main printing service, Kodak Gallery (nee Ofoto) offers a similar deal, but last I checked it was less flexible and more expensive. |
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