Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anybody got an opinion on standalone network drives? I'm considering going down this route to give me extra backup storage easily accessible from any of my home PCs - I was considering something like the Netgear SC101 with a couple of 500 GB drives. Up to this point, I have used external USB drives (with separate off-site DVD backups), but they're not totally convenient... any thoughts? Nick ----- Original Message ---- From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, 21 July, 2006 5:35:16 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Consensus on external hard drives Hi Don, Following Brian's advice regarding sizes (which he has posted before), I buy the biggest drive that he considers safe. This used to mean 250 GB, now upped to 400-500 GB, as he just wrote. I am on my third external drive now. They are all connected to my PC but are always powered off when I am not actually writing to them or retrieving files from them. All my RAW files and TIFF files (which contain my adjustments) are on these external HDs. In addition, I also burn them on DVDs so that I have two copies of everything; and I keep the DVDs in my office so that if my house burns down my images will still be available. I also stay away from all backup utilities, especially ones that compress the files--then you are dependent on operating systems and software continuity. I just use the copy-paste commands, and I am sure that my HDs will be readable by the next generation of Windows, or by OSX if I migrate wholesale to the Mac. Logically, if I have no problems reading files written by Windows onto my 2 GB USB stick when I plug in that USB stick into my Powerbook, then the same should be true of a 200 GB hard drive. Nathan