Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Over the years I have encountered several hard drive crashes. My understanding is that this is still fairly common, and it still scares me to know that I have unbacked up digital images on my pc's HD. - -dan c. At 07:11 PM 30-12-03 -0700, Adam Bridge wrote: >> > >I have to say that you may have overstated the problem with regard to hard disk drives. Floppies are very vulnerable, as we all know, and user-writable CDs have problems as well for the same reason that Ektachrome has had: the dyes fade. > >However, hard disk drives, while operating at a high bit density, also use magnetic materials suitable for long-term storage. > >I'll have to do some research - but I know that I have hard drives 10 MB ones, that can still be read by my RT-11 system and they were written in the 80s. > >I have shifted to storing all digital media onto hard drives I mount on a Weibetech system connected via FireWire 400. This system seems solid. The on-disk structure isn't likely to vanish and, if it does, I will be able to copy from the old to a new file system on a substantially larger drive as the technology improves. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html