Don't be an idiot!

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

These look expensive until you have a system crash http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10491. I have a couple of them and they run a bit hot and are noisy but they're damn fast. Automated backup software is all of about $50 these days.

I've opened up dead LaCie FireWire drives and they have Maxtor drives in them. Kind of pissed me off since LaCie drives tend to cost more then Maxtors.


I personally have a bunch of FireWire drives that I rotate and even keep some off premises just in case something really bad happens.

I keep two versions of my entire boot drive that I've cloned using Carbon Copy Cloner. I also do nightly versioned backups of my laptop's home folder where I keep eight previous versions of all my data using a automatic program called DataBackup.

Last year when the drive in my laptop died I was back up and running in ten minutes booted from an external FireWire drive until my new internal drive arrived and didn't loose anything.

Over at Angel's place we have a bunch of RAIDs made from cheap FireWire drives but as cd34 mentioned they do not protect against data corruption. Since the data is noting but raw video and jpegs on a Mac system which doesn't get viruses it is a risk that we have decided to accept. We have archived important stuff to another set of FireWire drives.