My MyBook was almost out of space, and it was time to start relocating masters - think I've got it figured out now! ;
My current backup plan is that photos on my HD are fine, I have an Iomega FW drive running TimeMachine, so 2 hard drives would have to fail before my photos are lost. ; So when it's time, I'll relocate the masters to an external HD, and then backup that external HD to DVD.
But like I said, my MyBook is almost out of room, and since Fry's had them on sale this weekend, I picked up one of the:
Simpletech Pro Duo Quad External HD
http://www.simpletech.com/products/stor ... rive-quad/
It has 2 1TB drives in it, USB, FW 400/800, and eSATA interfaces. ; It also comes installed with hardware RAID 0 (default) or RAID 1. ; While their instructions were a little confusing at first, I got the RAID 1 setup and so now I have an empty 1TB external that will handle RAID 1 without any doing on my part. ; The bigger question is if I'm going to continue to back the photos up to DVD. ; I may still do out of paranoia, but I'm doubting both HDs in the system will fail at the same time. ; It has a 3 year warranty, and a red LED will light up on the front if a drive fails.
My current backup plan is that photos on my HD are fine, I have an Iomega FW drive running TimeMachine, so 2 hard drives would have to fail before my photos are lost. ; So when it's time, I'll relocate the masters to an external HD, and then backup that external HD to DVD.
But like I said, my MyBook is almost out of room, and since Fry's had them on sale this weekend, I picked up one of the:
Simpletech Pro Duo Quad External HD
http://www.simpletech.com/products/stor ... rive-quad/
It has 2 1TB drives in it, USB, FW 400/800, and eSATA interfaces. ; It also comes installed with hardware RAID 0 (default) or RAID 1. ; While their instructions were a little confusing at first, I got the RAID 1 setup and so now I have an empty 1TB external that will handle RAID 1 without any doing on my part. ; The bigger question is if I'm going to continue to back the photos up to DVD. ; I may still do out of paranoia, but I'm doubting both HDs in the system will fail at the same time. ; It has a 3 year warranty, and a red LED will light up on the front if a drive fails.
