nugeny wrote:
I have a different experience: as time goes on: it take me less and less time to back up more and more data in a ever shrinking external HD.
My current HD of 1500 gigs is about 1/3 the size of the first HD of 500 gigs and runs at least x3 faster. Go figure and be happy.
It all depends on your growth. In the beginning I simply copied 100 CDs to an external drive. For the last couple years I have filled a 1TB drive each sports season. Before that it was 750GB, then 500GB and so on. Currently I have TEN external drives going back to 2003 that will all need to be migrated at one point or another. That's over 7TB of data. Next year it will be 10TB. Despite drive technology changing slightly, the time required to constantly move from one media to another definitely becomes LONGER because the source drive still uses the old interface.
So even if I migrate to a new wiz-bang eSATA6 6TB drive, my source drives still need to be read via the USB port. Sloooooooooooow. :-)
I use 500gb 2.5 inch Western Digital Passports for primary backup
(soon moving to 1tb WD passport drives)
and 1.5 -2.0 tb 3.5 external usb drives for secondary backup
Periodically I copy the old backup to new drives..
then archive the old drives. I Spread them around.. mom's house, vacation house,
Do not throw out DVD's just in case you ever have a problem.
Be careful of image corruption-- even though the file name is there, the whole image may not be there.
I have close to 1,000,000 digital images. and have found a few that are only partially there-- The whole jpg is not there...
That's why it is important to have multiple backups-- in case corruption occurs.
