Digital BW, The Print

Paul.
In follow up of  John's post.. Mirroring is a safe, easy and sensible way to go.. If you have a total hardware crash with your mirrored drives you can still mount the good drive and retrieve data.. So if your files were relatively organized you can still pull them off easily in a make sense way..  Their are a lots of fancy ways to set up storage .. In truth hard disks are the most cost effective way to go..  Cloud storage , which has been the topic of this discussion,  I've fooled with it. in the end they can't do anywhere near as good a job as you could do if you choose to take responsibility for it.. It's not that big a deal in truth ...It's simply being responsible that 's all.. 

jimbo----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Freitag John 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Cc: Freitag John 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:16 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: OT - Laptop and cloud image editing?


    
  Paul,

  Most of us have experienced hard disk crashes, sorry to hear about yours. My solution is to put all my photos and data on a RAID 1 (mirrored) array. Data are saved to both disks and, in the event that one dies, the data is still available on the other. You buy another disk to replace the failed drive, the RAID controller rebuilds the dataset and you are backed up on 2 disks again. 

  It is also prudent to back up data off site of possible. Cloud backup is useful for this but not to rely upon exclusively.

  John Freitag


  
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