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MichaelSoE

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7. I've been using a external raid drive for years.

Reply to srican69 (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:47 AM

Feb 2013

It's mirrored (2 drives so if one dies the other is identical and nothing is lost) and when I down load RAWs off the camera they go straight into the raid drive. Since it's on my home network I can access the files from any of my computers. It's an old netgear duo. There are now better ones available, they are moderately priced and you have duplicates in case one drive craps out. I also do periodic backups of files that are not photos.

So unless my house burns down or the thieves of the night steal the raid, I'm covered.

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Question on Storage and back up [View all] srican69 Feb 2013 OP

Have you considered a hard drive dock? ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #1

very interesting ..... never knew about it ... srican69 Feb 2013 #2

They have high speed interfaces too ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #3

yes ... I can see myself making a trip to the bank locker about once a month with the backups srican69 Feb 2013 #4

I believe in external HDs. JohnnyRingo Feb 2013 #5

I use a 1Tb hard drive... ljm2002 Feb 2013 #6

I've been using a external raid drive for years. MichaelSoE Feb 2013 #7

im anal about backups rdking647 Feb 2013 #8