TomDart opened this issue on Apr 24, 2006 · 25 posts
danob posted Tue, 25 April 2006 at 5:26 AM
I tend to use DVD's for the extra storage and continue to trust a USB external drive backing up at regular intervals despite a recent problem on this device which turned out to be a faulty power supply I have had one for a number of years and has proven far more reliable than my Hard drives on my PC.. Which I have had as RAID on Serial drives which for some reason are I have found less reliable than IDE drives.. The new camera devices may prove to be more reliable for longer term storage as they wont get the heavy use of the PC..
In the end I think the only safe way is to continue to back up your data and reburn them after a period of time.. It is quick and cheap to do this nowadays.. No system is going to be 100% reliable whatever you chose but the above method is the best way I have found,,
I look forward to the arrival of Lightbox type software as I tend to store images that are not worh saving and then is a real pain to sort through them all at a later date, which may say something about my lack of organisation!!
Danny O'Byrne http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/
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