Advice on external hard drive please

As a case in point, my house was hit by lightning in the early hours of Friday morning. It entered through the BT socket, melting it and blowing the ADSL filter and router to pieces. It then travelled down the ethernet cable to the back room and fried two PCs and exited through a wall socket, blowing an 8-gang surge protector to pieces. Luckily my backups were unaffected but it has certainly brought it home how easy it is to lose all my data.
 
OneTen said:
As a case in point, my house was hit by lightning in the early hours of Friday morning. It entered through the BT socket, melting it and blowing the ADSL filter and router to pieces. It then travelled down the ethernet cable to the back room and fried two PCs and exited through a wall socket, blowing an 8-gang surge protector to pieces. Luckily my backups were unaffected but it has certainly brought it home how easy it is to lose all my data.
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Blimey! That makes me want o go out and buy (yet another) external drive!

Thanks for sharing that as it may just nudge someone into considering their back-up options. Hope you got everything sorted out as best as possible.
 
I have 2 WD 1TB My Books,
one for the Time machine and the other for the NEF files
 
I've just added a WD 1TB USB drive and there was a virtual CD partition pre-configured that I don't want. There's instructions on the WD Website on how to remove it, this involves installing a firmware update then a drive manager.
 
The best method is to print the good ones and frame them on your wall. No one wants to nick them and they dont corrupt!

Thats what I do.
 
Lensflare said:
If you back up to DVDs you will be sadly disappointed in a few years when you come to retrieve them.

I have DVDs that only a year later have started to corrupt, even though they just sit there doing nothing. They are notoriuously unstable - and the next crop of machines probably won't be able to read them. new computers cannot read DVDs from a few years ago. I know, my library operator found out the hard way (hard way....oh suit yourself)

The oNLY secure method of archiving is to put stuff on a server grade machine. Make sure whatever you do is backward compatible. Blue ray machines will not have DVD readers......some already don't. If you had backed up onto floppy discs from 10 years ago....where is your floppy slot on your new comoputer then?
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Thats not right! Part of the 'Bluray' spec is that the player/recorder has to support MPEG2 (DVD) or it cannot be produced as its part of the agreed Bluray manufacturer specification. There isnt one Bluray player (stand alone or PC based) out there that doesnt support DVD and this spec is set in stone for the future.

People will own, and use DVD's, for decades to come.
 
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