Digital BW, The Print

Have you considered a SAN?  Novell makes a very affordable chassis 
into which you can install 2 of your favorite drives and run them in 
a mirrored pair.

The backup software which comes with the Novell backsup whatever you 
want at the schedule you set.  I back up 3 different computers to 
one Novell, each having their own 'Drives' which are carved out of 
the overall disk space.

After bootup, these drives look like any other drive on the 
computer.  Only downside is the LAN connect speed is 100 Mbits, not 
1 Gig.  However, since it is running in the background during the 
backups, it doesn't subtract any time from a workday.

If you are really concerned, you could get a pair and run them both 
for quad redundancy.

Your hard drive life seems way too short.  I think I've had 1 or 2 
drives go bad in the past 10 years.  I've run Hitachi's, IBM, 
Seagate & Western Digital with no problems.  IDE, EIDE, ATA, SATA 
and SCSI. I have a fan blowing on each drive in a large square box 
server chassis.  Over 1 terrabyte in the box in somewhere around 7 
or 8 drives (I'd have to open it and count to know).





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ginnylady33" 
<ginnylady33@...> wrote:
>
> 1-I only use Seagate ATA HDs.
> 2-They are mainly in sleep mode or whatever it is called. They are 
not
> spinning all day long.
> 3-Our computer room is equipped with Monster power centers with
> 'CleanPower'.
> 4-I never buy refurbs of anything.
> 5-I have a very cool room and the systems run equally cool in very
> nice Antec cases that have pull-out trays for each HD and 
individual fans.
>  
>  The bottom line is, as tempting as it may look space-wise, I'd 
never
> feel secure having my images backed up on a 500 GB HD for archival
> storage If/when that HD fails, I'd be in very deep trouble. It 
would
> be a huge loss. 
>  This is just my personal view, what I feel comfortable with. 
Everyone
> has different confort levels and different ways of evaluating 
choices.
>  For those of you who feel secure using HD backups, I wish you the 
best.
>  From all that I've read, from now on, I will be making 2 gold CDs 
of
> everything and store them in different places. Perhaps, 
ultimately, I
> will try the Mitsui gold DVDs.
> 
> Best Regards
> Ginny
>