Several years ago I stopped backing up to CD's and never used DVD's because
of negative reviews about writable DVD's. I have hundreds of CD's indexed
and have checked them from time to time. All seem to be working however
finding anything is time consuming. Some time in the future I may tray
Blu-Ray when the media comes down in price. For now I am using 2 TB Western
Green drives in a Thermaltake carrier. The drives are plug and play and
exposed. They run just slightly warm not hot like earlier drives. I just
store the drives in a bookcase but can put them in a camera bag to run if
needed. Backup is done using Acronis True Image.
Michael
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Larry Berman <larry@bermanart.com> wrote:
>
>
> Besides the reliability of the drives, it's also about heat. There
> may be no statistics to support it but I don't think external hard
> drives are in cases (with fans) that are as cool as drives in tower
> cases. It also depends on how often you have to access the external drive.
>
> It's your workflow. Every year I purchase two back up drives and copy
> data over from an older backup, adding what I've been doing since the
> last backup. Two drives stay in the bank and I keep one backup on a
> shelf. What I do has worked for me. Besides my own work, I have
> almost 500 DVD's of images I've worked on for other artists. Those
> are also backed up on external drives.
>
> Larry
>
> >Larry - I keep my external hard drives on all the time. Have you
> >found, if you
> >only turn on when needed, that they are less susceptible to crashing?
>
> ******************************
> Larry Berman
> 412-401-8100
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> http://BermanGraphics.com <http://bermangraphics.com/>
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