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philbaum · 06-26-2009, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by benjikan

Many consider this as over kill. But imagine the thought of losing your archives to some electrical anomaly. In some ways it would be akin to losing your identity. All of those images that were an expression of your world view, lost for ever.

Benjamin Kanarek Blog “Better Safe than Sorry”

Benjamin,
Overkill, no i don't think so. Not after what happened to me last weekend. Certainly not for someone with your professional skill.

I just have an external 3.5" hard drive for my images and one backup hard drive to that one.

I took them both along on a short trip last weekend, realizing i would have some time to do a backup. I had them both on a coffee table where i stayed, and stepped over the cables to get a drink, making very sure that i didn't snag any of the cables. But i did snag the cable to my backup drive, a Maxtor 500 megabyte drive, and it tumbled a short distance (less than 18 inch) to a carpeted floor with foam underlayment. No external physical damage to the drive but it appears jammed up and won't read or write. I spent an hour that night looking at some of my finer images, realizing this might be the last time i might see them.

Went out to the store first thing in the morning and got a Seagate FreeAgent Go 320 megabyte 2.5" drive thats made for laptops, easy to carry, store and i think probably built for a little bit more shock. Only problem was that it took 17 hours to back up my 200 gigabytes of images. I'm now going to do some studying to find out what i need to do quicker backups, 17 hours seems obscene. But i'm sure theres a 3rd hard drive in my future as soon as i figure out what i should buy on the next go around. 2 drives is not enough as my story illustrates.

I'm also not sure it makes sense to treat all images as the same value. I'm contemplating letting lightroom sort out my 5 star images and putting them on a separate drive for a periodic backup of "special" images: Haven't thought this through.

thanks for the reminder by the way!!!!!!!

06-26-2009, 08:59 PM	#5
philbaum Pentaxian Location: Port Townsend, Washington State, USA Gallery Photos: 0 Posts: 457	Originally Posted by benjikan Many consider this as over kill. But imagine the thought of losing your archives to some electrical anomaly. In some ways it would be akin to losing your identity. All of those images that were an expression of your world view, lost for ever. Benjamin Kanarek Blog “Better Safe than Sorry” Benjamin, Overkill, no i don't think so. Not after what happened to me last weekend. Certainly not for someone with your professional skill. I just have an external 3.5" hard drive for my images and one backup hard drive to that one. I took them both along on a short trip last weekend, realizing i would have some time to do a backup. I had them both on a coffee table where i stayed, and stepped over the cables to get a drink, making very sure that i didn't snag any of the cables. But i did snag the cable to my backup drive, a Maxtor 500 megabyte drive, and it tumbled a short distance (less than 18 inch) to a carpeted floor with foam underlayment. No external physical damage to the drive but it appears jammed up and won't read or write. I spent an hour that night looking at some of my finer images, realizing this might be the last time i might see them. Went out to the store first thing in the morning and got a Seagate FreeAgent Go 320 megabyte 2.5" drive thats made for laptops, easy to carry, store and i think probably built for a little bit more shock. Only problem was that it took 17 hours to back up my 200 gigabytes of images. I'm now going to do some studying to find out what i need to do quicker backups, 17 hours seems obscene. But i'm sure theres a 3rd hard drive in my future as soon as i figure out what i should buy on the next go around. 2 drives is not enough as my story illustrates. I'm also not sure it makes sense to treat all images as the same value. I'm contemplating letting lightroom sort out my 5 star images and putting them on a separate drive for a periodic backup of "special" images: Haven't thought this through. thanks for the reminder by the way!!!!!!!