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Mickymouse
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That's what I shall do when I get my new set up, except I wouldn't trust iffy drives from a fair.johnrobinson said:
Mick
Go look at the Epsion P-2000 or the Epsion P-4000. You can see and share and blow way up and edit out the junk fast making more room for the good stuff. Shoot a small j-peg along with your raw. The Epsion will only enlarge the J-peg but that will work just fine out and about. This is a favorite toy of mine.
Computer fairs always seem a bit pricey to me except for media. PC World are convenient but expensive.
Try www.savastore.com. Prices are low, and they have a huge range, although after sales service is said to be poor. I bought a Lacie 250GB ext HDD from them and it works fine. The one big disadvantage is that I have yet another power supply to plug in, as the Lacie needs external power. It comes with basic backup software, that allows me to select which folders to save.
As someone else suggested, you could buy a HD caddy and insert it in one of the optical drive bays (removing a CD/DVD player if need be). Then you just buy internal hard drives to fit the caddy. In the long run this is cheaper. But you will need to buy separate backup software. There is some free stuff available, and it works, but is not especially elegant.
Try www.savastore.com. Prices are low, and they have a huge range, although after sales service is said to be poor. I bought a Lacie 250GB ext HDD from them and it works fine. The one big disadvantage is that I have yet another power supply to plug in, as the Lacie needs external power. It comes with basic backup software, that allows me to select which folders to save.
As someone else suggested, you could buy a HD caddy and insert it in one of the optical drive bays (removing a CD/DVD player if need be). Then you just buy internal hard drives to fit the caddy. In the long run this is cheaper. But you will need to buy separate backup software. There is some free stuff available, and it works, but is not especially elegant.
Leif said:
Hi Leif,
Why do you need backup software, I went to a pc fair bought an external case and hard drive and I just save my photos to a folder which I date and then send the folder over to my external H/drive I,ve been doing this for about 18 months with no problems.I forgot to mention I only send them to my external H/Drive when I have finished processing the photos,and I only switch my ex on when I want to view or have some photos to transfer.
Regards.
Stan.
stanacko said:
Hello Stan: Why? Because I find it tedious having to manually copy data across. I have a lot of folders that potentially change, including email archive, personal settings, documents, photos and so on. I do admit though that I only perform the full backup occasionally, and often just copy across the most recently added image folder, on the grounds that the full backup takes an hour and ties up the CPU.
Leif
Thanks for the advice everyone.
I have stuck with the idea of an external one, I don't fancy messing around with internal ones and it makes it easier when I change the PC in the future. So I've just ordered 2x250GB externals for £65 each which seemed a decent price to me.
I have stuck with the idea of an external one, I don't fancy messing around with internal ones and it makes it easier when I change the PC in the future. So I've just ordered 2x250GB externals for £65 each which seemed a decent price to me.
Duke Leto
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Late to the conversation, I back all my photos on an external drive and then every time I have another 5Gb I transfer to a DVD, not sure if this is safer than 2 hard drives. When this 300Gb drive is full I'll remove it for storage and start a new one but still hard copying to DVD
Ben M
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Hard disks (and other disks) fail all the time for all sorts of reasons and to varying degrees. I've had a couple of disks fail on me in the past. One was a serious fail of a Maxtor drive and I lost a lot of valuable data (most of it backed up though). I've heard that the Maxtor drives have improved a lot since then (2000ish), but I've since always bought Western Digital. No failures of those, but I'm sure everyone has different stories.
If anyone is really serious about data storage (as I am) they should look into RAID. The idea is that multiple hard disks are combined into one logical hard disk via hardware controllers and so the operating sees one hard disk, but in reality the data is being shared or replicated across multiple disks. Most server machines are using a RAID setup, and this is the standard method for long-term storage of sensitive data.
Description of RAID on Wikipedia
Description of various RAID levels
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a RAID array
If anyone is really serious about data storage (as I am) they should look into RAID. The idea is that multiple hard disks are combined into one logical hard disk via hardware controllers and so the operating sees one hard disk, but in reality the data is being shared or replicated across multiple disks. Most server machines are using a RAID setup, and this is the standard method for long-term storage of sensitive data.
Description of RAID on Wikipedia
Description of various RAID levels
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a RAID array
