Re: photo storage question

[Mario Pires <retorta@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use a Western Digital external drive (320 GB) and a Lacie (500 GB). I download the photos from each session i make to both of them (via Downloader Pro), so that i have 2 copys of each raw photo. Regularly i archive to DVD (2 copys of each).

2008/4/27 David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>:

w8imo@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Even though hard drive technology and reliability have greatly improved I personally don't like really big, like 1TB, hard drives because if you lose it you've lost a lot.   I prefer smaller drives even if it means two or three.

But using two drives doubles the chance of a failure!

A single big drive has pretty much always been more reliable than multiple smaller drives.
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