Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]you can buy a lot of hard drive terrabytes for 1800 bucks On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote: > Well one of my 2TB drive in the back up system just gave up the ghost. > > I have ~2TB of images right now, and sure to grow > > I know there were a few discussions on back up systems for photos, but I > don't think tape back up got much attention. Anyone using it? > > I am more or less down to choosing between tape back up or Amazon Glacier. > > The nice thing about Glacier is that it is entirely offsite. The major > downside is that while it is much cheaper than other online storage, at > $0.01 per GB per month, with 2TB of data, that's still $240 per year and > will be more as I take more photos. > > The nice thing about tape is that it is cheap enough ($60-$100 per 2 TB) > that I can make at least one duplicate copy. The downside is that the > initial equipment purchase costs $1300-$1800 (and up) and I will have to > find an offsite solution. > > The default is to continue with hard drive back up. The major problem is > reliability. For business data, I have a a RAID netstation and multiple > back up on different systems, but for photos, doing the same is just not > fiscally viable. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA