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Decent Hard Drive for Photography Storage?
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Hi there, just wondering could somebody recommend a decent reliable Hard Drive for storing photos??? I am down to the last 20 GB on the PC drive and am looking for at least a 1TB or 2TB Hard Drive at this stage!!! I know Western Digital do good ones but sometimes I am just tempted to go on to the Dell website and order whatever I can find :oops:
Hi breandain,
I got this one at xmas from Argos.
http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/6758624/Trail/searchtext%3ESEAGATE.htm
I am very experienced in PC repair – and my first choice always for a hard drive would be Seagate. I’ve rarely seen one fail (unlike Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu)
Very competitive price.
hope this helps.
bren
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brencullen/Hey there Bren!
Thanks for the reply :) I took a look at the link you attached and that looks decent enough value :wink: I might try and pick it up next week when I get a chance. My photos need a new home :D
Breandain
Just a quick word of warning – don’t rely on a single drive to store your files. You need a minimum of 2 copies and preferably more !
All hard drives will fail eventually – it’s just a matter of when.Reads on Nassau Street sell 1 Terabyte drives for 79 euro.
That’s the best value I’ve seen.
dont skimp on storage, all your images will be on there
there are only a few actual hard drive manufacturers then most of the others just build boxes to put them in
the main things to look for are very good power supplies and proper cooling
heat and dodgy power is what make drives fail mainly
like i say DONT SCRIMP ON STORGE
Thanks for all the advice guys :D Steve, would you say the drive at the Argos link is decent value?
I know what you mean about the need not to scrimp and I have to get around to getting a few decent drives. I think I will wait and not go on impulse as I want that guarantee of not having a dodgy drive. In light of the issues of hard drives I have become more aware that I probably save lots of rubbish that could be binned too!!! :oops:FrankC wrote:
Just a quick word of warning – don’t rely on a single drive to store your files. You need a minimum of 2 copies and preferably more !
All hard drives will fail eventually – it’s just a matter of when.Very good advice…
Aldi, ITB Medion hard drive, €79.99, just on special today.
Personally I have 2 hard drives backing up onto each other and all photos burned to DVD along with Lightroom back-ups etc. Never lost a photo. Oh dear god, did I just say that???
A good habit to get into also when backing up is if you shoot raw is to save a version of the raw file off as a jpg or a tiff (the better pictures anyhow). Reason being is that if you come back to them in 20 years time the current software then might not be able to read that version of the raw file….
AidanM: Thanks for letting me know ;) Will take a look at their site now and hope they haven’t all been snapped up!! Yeah I always hate it when I say something has never happened to me coz then I feel I have hexed myself :lol: Burning to DVDs is a good idea I never really considered…
Martin: Yeah I always shoot in RAW and JPEg and save the JPEGs onto the PC. Sometimes I dont bother with the RAW files which is criminal really and partly the reason I am broaching the question of getting a proper storage system together :oops:
Eason’s, 1TB Seagate, £69.99. I think they do a 1.5 TB as well, but 1TB was the right price for me, so I didn’t pay much attention to any others.
if you’re looking for an almost fail safe system gor for a 5 disk RAID setup. is a touch pricey but risk of data loss is very very small. Drobo does one I wish I had
Xali1971 wrote:
if you’re looking for an almost fail safe system gor for a 5 disk RAID setup. is a touch pricey but risk of data loss is very very small. Drobo does one I wish I had
http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo.php
Got me one of these a while back for storage/backup and it gives you great piece of mind. Currently have 3 x 1TB disks giving 1.7 TB of protected storage, yeah that’s 1,700 Gigs! Anyone 1 disk fails and just swap it out, no data loss.
When the 4TB drives come out it’ll take 4 of them :D
Xali1971 wrote:
if you’re looking for an almost fail safe system gor for a 5 disk RAID setup. is a touch pricey but risk of data loss is very very small. Drobo does one I wish I had
A single RAID device on its own is not a backup solution – though it can form part of one. Drobos are nice, but slightly overpriced RAID boxes.
RAID is intended for resilience (e.g. to keep an online system up and running while you change a failed disk) – not for backup.
So, a RAID device can be part of your backup solution, but you still need one or more separate backups – ideally with at least one copy in a separate location.Otherwise – all you have is a false sense of security and no backup :shock:
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