Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] WAS: Nathan's PAW 31: NOW: Digital ARCHIVING
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue Aug 3 10:45:20 2004
References: <20040803104106.HPNK3867.amsfep16-int.chello.nl@localhost> <004f01c4796d$02343ab0$87d86c18@ted> <6.1.2.0.2.20040803113523.04aa4c70@mail.infoave.net> <1091555021.12795.51.camel@failsafe>

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
>
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