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I just bought the WD "My Book" 500gig, it is quiet and was cheap at Costco.
My brother picked two of them up and called me up to let me know they were on there for $160CDN and seemed horrified that I didn't have a use to buy one...
"Don't you only have two 40s?"
'No, two 20s in my primary and a 10 and a 20 in my secondary computer'
"And you're not hurting for space?"
'No, you produce videos... I actually have to do work to fill my drives... when I'm done with each project, they're backed up to CD-R or DVD+R, one copy at work, one copy at mom and dads'
"Um, oh."
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I too back up to CD and DVD, however, I never remove the original from the HDD so it fills up fast and as my kids get more involved in things, the more videos I am keeping.
I have discovered that some of my older cheap CDs I have burned are not very good for archiving and some of the picture files are now corrupt, which is why I stopped removing the original from the HDD.
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If we want to start talking about backup schemes... you should have multiple, each for a different purpose. I have my desktop in the office with a boot drive, and my archive. The archive is a 2.1TB RAID5 and houses all of my photography/business related items. The boot drive of the computer does get my personal documents, but it is backed-up nightly using Retrospect to my 1TB RAID0. I also have a 480GB RAID0 for misc stuff (mp3's, movies, etc.) which is backed-up to the backup RAID. RAIDs (other than 0 or striping) are great for protection from drive failures... but it doesn't remove the issues of getting a virus that wipes things on the drives out, a corrupt resource fork, user error (ie deleting files), etc.. One thing that is nice about building the system for a Mac is that I have a lower risk of viri issues. To help prevent the loss of a file because of a computer/virus/user related error, as well as theft or fire, I burn all of my photos from the archive onto DVDs for off-site storage. In addition to drives, you always want to have a physical back-up (DVD, etc.) that can be stored off-site incase of fire/theift. Quote:
I have discovered that some of my older cheap CDs I have burned are not very good for archiving and some of the picture files are now corrupt
It is also a good idea to transition all the info to the latest media over time. Not only does the media break down and technology improves (and other formats will disappear... remember the floppy?). Yes, it takes time to do it, but as the media gets larger (CDs at 700MB -> DVDs at 4/8GB) it takes less time.
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The problem with a lot of these drives, especially the high-capacity ones, is that they actually have two physical hard drives in them operating as one large disk. (The technical term is that they are "striped" together operating as a RAID 0 volume.) What this means is that if one of those drives should fail, you lose access to all your data, regardless of the integrity of the other drive.
Just to restate what Peter said a lot of the 1Tb are 2x500Gb stripped raid 0 so if one drive goes there is no way to recover the data. Though i know on the Western Digigtal 1Tb drive you can reconfig to raid 1 which is mirrored. so you would only have 500Gb of total space but when you copied to the external it would actually be making an identical copy on the second 500 Gb drive.
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You can also do this with the Maxtor drive. Another thing to consider with the dual drive units is this: if one drive goes bad (and you're in RAID 1) will the warranty allow you to replace the drive yourself, or do you have to send it back to the factory? WD allows you to do the replacement yourself, while Maxtor voids the warranty when you open the case.
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oooh good catch & info thanks Ken.
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Well Costco had some Seagate, 750 gig Free Agent Pro hard drives for $200, so I picked one up. I haven’t hooked it up or installed the software yet. The box description talks about some special software that comes with the drive. I didn’t read up on it much…. Anyone try one of these yet? Words of advice before I start messing with it?
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