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05/28/2004 11:23:31 PM · #1 |
muhahahaha!
I finally bit the bullet and bought an external harddrive with 120gb...crazy how I need it now with my 10d's raw file's craving more space! this now means I can store about 15,000 more photos, that is unless i decide i need to store tif files alongside the raws? what is other's opinions on how to store your photos? I was thinking about storing locally at my house either on my internal hds and dvdr's and using the ext. hd as an off site backup.
Message edited by author 2004-05-28 23:24:10.
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05/29/2004 12:52:57 AM · #2 |
The bad news is that there is no good, cheap means of backing up storage of that size.
DVDs and CDs do not hold enough, do not have a proven longevity and quickly become cluttered.
Single large drives are great, but they are a single fail point (just ask TooCool about his experiences recently :( ).
The best option available for long term, reliable storage is a RAID array, preferably RAID5 or better, with hot-swappable drives. Basically this is what appears and acts as a single large drive to the system, but is actually made up of several smaller drives. When, not if, one of them fails, it can be removed and replaced without loss of data. The chance of 4 or more drives all failing at the same time are pretty small, unless affected by an external disaster. Another plus of a RAID5 array is that it is expandable, by adding additional drives, should you need more room.
Of course, any system that means anything to you should be on a UPS that will prevent surges and keep the system up during a blackout long enough to properly shut down.
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05/29/2004 02:58:00 AM · #3 |
Yea I just bought me an external 250 GB, love it, now can show everyone my pics instead of, "Come back to my place and can show them to you" evern though my place was like 30 miles away...much better now.
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05/29/2004 09:07:03 AM · #4 |
What my storage plan will be is multiple backup points. I've got an account with smugmug.com right now. At the moment, they have unlimited storage for JPEGs. So all my originals go up to smugmug which has RAID backup. They are also going to be introducing the ability to order CD backups.
I'll be getting an external HD for local storage of files. The last component will be DVD backup, changed out every 2-4 years depending on latest industry data. Between these three storage methods, I should be okay. I hope.
Clara
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05/29/2004 10:39:56 AM · #5 |
In 1998 I started using CDRs to backup my data, to date I have not run into any failures in these CDs. My feeling at the time was that the CD format was going to be around for a long time and I have not seen anything since to change my mind.
I now mainly use DVDs to backup with, cheaper per gigabyte and I like the fact that the recording surface is safely in the middle of the disk instead of being close to the top surface like CDs are.
I backup every shot I take onto DVDs, I then edit the ones that are on my hard drive to be the “better” shots. My camera has an auto bracket mode which really starts to chew up space, all versions get saved to DVD but then I will pick the best one to keep on the hard drive.
I use “Archive Creator” to do that backups onto DVD, this produces a nice master index that stays on the hard drive and a index for each backup on the DVD itself. The index is in HTML so the DVD can be read by just about any computer running any operating system as long as it has a DVD reader.
I do plan on making copies of the backup DVDs every few years to avoid bit rot, right not it is not clear how often this should be done.
As the cost of external hard drives continues to drop I will start to backup to them as well.
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