[Leica] Backup hardware: USB3 HDD

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Our main back up, for the whole family, is a Synology DS414j NAS with 4 WD 4tb enterprise drives in a Raid 5 array, giving around 11-12 tb of effective storage. The drives work well, but the NAS started acting up last week, and has gone back to the dealers for repair. On top of this, I have two sets of external back up of all images, both RAW and processed, with layers intact, one of which resides in a bank locker (another complete set lies in my main desktop on internal, enterprise level hard drives). You cannot be too careful in backing up digital files, and external storage is cheap.

In this digital age, there is no such word in the lexicon as "permanent" - we are always in a race to protect our data ahead of inevitable obsolescence and failure!

Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 28-Sep-2015, at 06:21, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> 
> ALL drives died. I have a drawer full of dead WD, Seagate, IBM etc.
> 
> Buy the "enterprise" versions with at least 5 years warranty. Don't skim on
> hard drive.
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've never had a Western Digtal drive give out on my and its been a decade
>> and many many drives. I'm about to put my 1TB of pic files on a 2TB drive
>> pre formated for Mac (takes the stress out).
>> The lines I've gone for are the
>> WD  My Book External Hard Drive for Mac
>> The 3 TB costs $98.99 cents plus tax ...Which is my price point exactly. A
>> penny more no deal.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9/27/15 2:19 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Frys Electronics has a Western Digital 5TB external USB3.0 drive on sale
>> for
>>> $120. This is a massive amount of storage (in Leica M240 terms, about
>> 200,000
>>> raw  images).   If you are looking for a backup HDD, this is a cost
>> effective
>>> solution.
>>> 
>>> Please, no outbursts of WD is no good, brand Z is better.  Or some techie
>>> version of why you should only use NAS drives.  This is a simple, cost
>>> effective, low tech way to backup your computer.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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