Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think the easy more convenient cheap and obvious solution to just about anything is normally the best. HDD's hard disk drives are the digital camera of digital storage. Ad in Its a top consumer item right in the forefront of R&D research and development ad that's what people are spending their dollars on now. Not computer specialists. Everybody.. I'd bet for every dollar spend on tape drive development which seem like an out of date thing to me they spend ten thousand dollars on R&D for HDD's. Its where the money is - follow the money. More importantly: do what everybody else is doing. On 12/15/12 9:15 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > Well, at $180 for 2TB, that's 10 drives for $1800. > > Unused drives sitting around is less reliable than unused tapes, sitting > around. > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> you can buy a lot of hard drive terrabytes for 1800 bucks >> >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Richard Man <richard at >> richardmanphoto.com >>> wrote: >> >>> Well one of my 2TB drive in the back up system just gave up the ghost. >>> >>> I have ~2TB of images right now, and sure to grow >>> >>> I know there were a few discussions on back up systems for photos, but I >>> don't think tape back up got much attention. Anyone using it? >>> >>> I am more or less down to choosing between tape back up or Amazon >> Glacier. >>> >>> The nice thing about Glacier is that it is entirely offsite. The major >>> downside is that while it is much cheaper than other online storage, at >>> $0.01 per GB per month, with 2TB of data, that's still $240 per year and >>> will be more as I take more photos. >>> >>> The nice thing about tape is that it is cheap enough ($60-$100 per 2 TB) >>> that I can make at least one duplicate copy. The downside is that the >>> initial equipment purchase costs $1300-$1800 (and up) and I will have to >>> find an offsite solution. >>> >>> The default is to continue with hard drive back up. The major problem is >>> reliability. For business data, I have a a RAID netstation and multiple >>> back up on different systems, but for photos, doing the same is just not >>> fiscally viable. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/