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oakfieldphotography.com
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Hi all.
Yes its that time of the year againg and i am shopping for external hardrives. Need 2 by the way to back each other up you see. I have filled my 2 old 1TB Iomega hardrives and started looking for replacements this week. Kinda freaked me out to see how the replacements are starting to look on ebay. Some are very small, just like a notebook. I am afraid i dont know if i could trust 3 years worth of work to these but mabey youall here could tell me differently.
Kind regards
patrick.:D
Ps
Just in case anyone here is going to ask, all i want to store is RAW,JPEG and HDvideo from my 5DmkII.
Yes its that time of the year againg and i am shopping for external hardrives. Need 2 by the way to back each other up you see. I have filled my 2 old 1TB Iomega hardrives and started looking for replacements this week. Kinda freaked me out to see how the replacements are starting to look on ebay. Some are very small, just like a notebook. I am afraid i dont know if i could trust 3 years worth of work to these but mabey youall here could tell me differently.
Kind regards
patrick.:D
Ps
Just in case anyone here is going to ask, all i want to store is RAW,JPEG and HDvideo from my 5DmkII.
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You want Western Digital or Seagate, basically. The lesser-known brands are less reliable. I have a 1TB Western Digital My Book. It's fine if you don't need super-fast transfer speeds, or portability. You might like a WD Elements drive... they're not expensive, and the "SE Portable" ones don't require an outlet (just USB).
Kind regards
Patrick:D
My WD drive never leaves my desk. I'm afraid to even pick it up
And for Seagate I would go with a 2TB: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056YNA34/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thierry-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0056YNA34
Also, you should check out Drobo (This is what I use) : http://www.amazon.com/mn/search?_encoding=UTF8&field-keywords=DROBO&url=search-alias%3Delectronics&_encoding=UTF8&tag=thierry-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
What are you doing that a HD would get banged and dropped? More weight and more bulk means more pressure too when they get dropped. The idea of external HD is to make backups and then put in safe places.
Agree with other that you should stick with Seagate or WD I deal with them all the time at work and they do well most getting 3 to 5 years at constant running in DVRs. Tempature seems to be the biggest factor in drive life. Drives in a hot ATM room do not last as long as ones in a nice IT climate controlled one
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The thing with harddrives is not IF they will fail but WHEN...they all fail but as mentioned above the better brands will outlast the others normally..... ... ... I stopped using the cheaper brands after talking with an engineer I used to work with at a computer MFG'er and he was in charge of the testing of all the harddrives (since the time that they weighed 300-1k lbs to present day form factor) and Seagte and Hitachi were alsways the top runners with the fewest failures.......
I use the WD drives because I can get them for a steal on the WD Outlet site. You need to check frequently, but the prices can be excellent. I have 1 1TB MyBook Live (awesome NAS), 2 WD MyBook Studios, 2 WD Passport Studios, and an Iomega drive. The WDs are very well behaved with my Mac, going to sleep when the Mac does etc. They are silent. The Iomega will only sleep if connected via USB (all drives have both USB and Firewire), and is noisy like a room fan. It has been 'promoted' to a secondary backup device now.
WD Outlet here. For even better prices, check out the 'recertified' drives as well.
Exactly.
Hey, thanks! Those are good prices.
The best prices I've seen are almost ALWAYS at Costco. I believe my studio just recently purchased two 3 TB drives for just $106 or something like that. $126? Either way, you just can't beat the price. Personally, I prefer G-Technology for quality, but still I've worked with plenty of WD mybooks and smaller portable drives, without any failures. WD mybooks used to have a VERY high DOA rate, though, and in general you should NEVER trust any one brand. No brand has a perfect history; it mostly comes down to the model, and even the lot number from the factory. There's just bad batches here and there, no matter what. Sometimes you can trust the more expensive, high-end products to have better quality control, but sometimes not. The best thing you can do is to go on a site like NewEgg or Amazon, where you can read at least a hundred reviews on a specific make and model before buying. For example, I forget which but recently there was a bad batch of 750 GB drives going around, and yet the same exact type of drive but in a 1 TB size was proven to be far more reliable.
As far as size is concerned, I might agree that you're more likely to drop and break a small portable drive than a larger, stationary drive. But if you leave them both alone, there's probably not much difference. Personally, I use two regular (3.5") externals for on-site backup, and then a couple smaller portable drives go out with my computer when I'm on-location.
What I do for backup is, 1.) I keep my data on at least 3 hard drives at all times, with one drive going off-site every night. 2.) I get JPG's uploaded to the internet ASAP. (Thank you, Smugmug!)
=Matt=
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Have you consider a NAS (Network Access System) this device is connected to your network and it is accessible by every computer on it. There are several types, you will want one with a RAID set up, you can have a RAID 1 which is 2 drives in mirror, that is the data is in both of them. The other system is more expensive but more reliable and it is a RAID 5, this is 3 drives, if one goes back the other 2 will maintain the data until you replace the broken one; once this is done the raid system will rebuild the new drive.
There some installation issues, were you are going to put the unit, and the network setup. That is what I have and I am happy with it
Hope it helps.
Joe
I have a Windows Home Server 2011 system that backs up all my Windows PCs transparently to a RAID 1 configuration on the WHS. This allows me to recover any PC via a recovery disk and very little time. The WHS is backed up itself, allowing for a single point of backup for all of my systems.
The RAID 1 functionality has already proved itself through the failure of one of my drives in the WHS.
In addition, the WHS allows access via the web from anywhere, allowing me to access my photographs wherever I am.
I built the WHS system myself, based on an Intel motherboard that supported Intel's Rapid Storage Technology and a relatively low powered i3 processor. Windows Home Server 2011 natively supports RST.
As Joe mentions this solution is pricier, but my time is money as well, and the ease of backing up all my PCs via a single point is well worth the initial cost.
Roak
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Joe