[Leica] Re: Backup

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

 > Plus ... the whole key to digital storage is migration.

Amen to that.

I use an ever growing large firewire external for photo backups and am 
thinking about up-sizing to a 1TB soon.

Jim

Daniel Ridings wrote:

>SNIP<
> 
> You haven't calculated two things:
> 
> 1) DVD's WILL FAIL more often than a hard disk. You just won't know it 
> until you try and use them.
> 
> 2) Your time. Burning DVD's is not for the person with a full calendar.
> 
> Plus ... the whole key to digital storage is migration.
> 
> Given the choice of migrating from today's technology (harddisks and 
> dvds) to tomorrows technology, whatever that will be, I have the choice 
> of migrating one unit, 1 hard disk, or around 100 slow units 
> (approximately that many DVD's ... at which time I discover which ones 
> have failed and I need to bring out the DVD's backup ... you need two of 
> them if you are going to store on DVD's at the very least).
> 
> So, when it comes to data migration, usb/firewire harddisks are 
> unsurpassed.
> 
> Daniel