Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After a major hard drive crash in December, 2003, I bit the bullet and bought an external Maxtor hard drive that plugs into the back of my PC via a fire wire. Check Office Depot if you are in the USA. I was surprised by the reasonable price. At 12:43 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote: >Probably the safest way to archive things these days is with additional >hard drives. I plan on building a "mirrored" disk array, somewhere between >500-1024GB big. A mirrored array contains an even amount of drives of equal >capacity. Basically for every drive in the array there is an duplicate, so >that >if one drive crashes, you can recover the data from it's twin. I'm pretty >sure >you could go to your local PCClub store and have something like this build >rather cheaply. > >For the most part CD's are highly unstable. I have had cheap ones fail after >only 2 years, even though they were properly stored. I do not have any >more hope >for DVDs and tapes are a whole different mess, because manufacturers keep >changing >formats every few years and you can end up with an orphaned system that is >no >longer supported. > >Feli > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information