Terabyte Drives

This is my take on it and it seems I'm in the minority.
I have 3 1 terabyte external drives. I don't worry about brands since any one can fail. I usually get the drives that are on sale.
I make 3 redundant backups and keep one offsite. Usually in my office at work. Just anywhere away from home.

I can have one of these drives fail, 2 at the same time, not likely.
3? Then my ex-wife is sticking pins in her Jake doll.

Anyway, my point is don't worry too much about brand or price, just have redundant drives and keep one away from your home. If you keep your backups at home, then you don't have a backup if your house get robbed or whatever.

Also, the raid arrays are great in case of a drive crash but they aren't very transportable and that goes to what I said above.

Jake

I'm similar to Jake, I buy different brands in case there is a design flaw in one particular model. I'm running four external hard drives all carrying the same info. I do find that the 1TB Western Digital My Book Pro, a little slow.

Whenever I see a smokin deal in a flyer I buy another drive......it's just too cheap these days. Also the off site is important.

The brands of drives I have are: Acomdata, HP, Western Digital, Comstar

I try where possible to buy drives that are Mac & PC compatible, in case I jump ship to Mac

The last thing I'm in process of doing, in addition to the external drives, is to subscribe to a virtual storage service.

Norman

Don its true, Im a 4 star hijacker, ill hijack my own forum. Pretty soon we will be talking about cannibals, zombies, or Sarah Palin. You think this thread is about hard drives? Think again.

hmm I guess I could do that, a cheap TB drive costs 100 bucks. Two of them would be OK I guess. So basically I can just count on one of them to fail.

I did consider getting a used drive... If a hard drive fails its most likely to fail in its first year. According to some website. So a used one might actually have a higher success rate. I dunno.

BTW Vista sucks. I Switched to XP and my computer is faster than ever. I dont think Ill ever switch to Mac at this point, my software is already for windows. But yeah, dont do Vista.

I'm with Normstock.

I have 2 1TB external usb drives and I copy all the files to one, then to the other. Usually do this every 10-20gigs worth of info I have. I only boot these drives to copy the data, other than that they are in a safe place (posting the safe place on twitter right now)

Scott you checked you PM's lately?

I thought P5 was our off-site storage area ;)

Yes Jason, MRC1 seems like an alright alternative, but you are still compressing more compared to sxs or p2.

Scott the MRC1 recorder goes no the Z7 and EX1 only. The MRC1K has a bracket so it can be mounted on any camera with firewire input.

Jason, If you mean the Sony EX1, it has its own sxs cards which are superior and doesn't accept the MRC1 unless you attached a bracket . . .you may be thinking of the Z5

Scott,
You backup every 10-20 gigs? So you would be OK with loosing that much data?
I get asked by the users that I support here all the time, "How often should I backup ?"
I tell them, You decide how much data is OK for you to loose and thats how often you backup.
I'm a smart ass sometimes.
I have a job that runs nightly so everything is backed up everyday.