Re: External HDD confusion
- From: MikeM <mmo45018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:23:55 GMT
The backup drive is for digital photos.I used DVDs for the photos I
took on an overseas trip in 2006, so not likely to be replaceable,
and when I needed to retrieve some of the backup files they were
corrupted. I check the DVDs I used, a lot because I had thousands of
photos, and found that everyone of them had developed faults. I didn't
use any cut-price disks.
The other reason is that I was accumulating a stack of plastic storage
boxes packed with disks. I take a lot of photos and back up in TIF and
RAW formats.
I found that the only disks that hadn't formed bad patches were RWs,
the opposite of what everyone I spoke to told me. At the cost of
brands like TDK the HD worked out cheaper. It also makes life a lot
easier when I can search thousands of files instead of looking through
individual disks.
Mike
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:02:48 -0000, pcbldrNinetyEight
<pcbldrninetyeight.com> wrote:
MikeM <mmo45018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in.
news:02htp3hkafpv94n7vla3r7iap8lp6424lm@xxxxxxx:
<snip>
Has somethimng changed with Maxtor and My Book drives? Are My Book
drives recently that crash harder to recover data from than other
drives?
If by crash you mean mechanical problem then I know of no magnet drive
that is easy to recover data from after such a crash. Recommend you use
DVD burner to back up your most important personal data at regular
intervals.
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