RE: [photoshop-beginners] What is the Point?

Just a word of caution if you're considering getting a disc drive by SeaGate. I bought a SeaGate 1,5 TB Barracuda 7200.11 SATA last year, uploaded close to 1 TB of photo's, and it promptly broke down in July. Called SeaGate demanding they retrieve the photos as the problem with the hard drive was a well known firmware problem. - SeaGate response? Forget it, you have to pay for the job yourself. I got the quote for the job: 1.500-2.000 Euros [!] I will never again purchase a SeaGate product. My advice: Get yourself a Western Digital hard drive instead. I own three, 500 GB, 2 TB w eSata, 2 TB w USB2, and they work flawlessly. Hard drives do, however, have a limited life span, so backing up your photos on multiple hard drives is actually not a bad idea. Goran N Sweden --- On Fri, 8/27/10, John L Waller <johnlwaller@sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: John L Waller <johnlwaller@sbcglobal.net> Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] What is the Point? To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, August 27, 2010, 12:02 PM   Simple. Your internal HD will fail as well. If you have data you want to keep safe, you need at least two HDs with the data duplicated on each. When one fails, you get a new one and copy the data from the good one to it so you will continue to have two backups. If you are really paranoid, you will have a third backup that you store in a safe deposit box and rotate out every week or two. My pictures folder has 160 gb of images in it, that would take over 26 dvds and I have a small collection. Pros would have many times that amount, DVDs and even Blu-ray would not cut it, especially if you wanted easy access to them. With today's technology, and the price of HDs, using HDs to create multiple backups is the most practical way. You can go with a prebuilt External drive, buy an internal drive and mount it in drive box, or the best yet, get an HD dock. A 1 terabyte drive is cheaper than a 1 terabyte drive, and you pay for the dock once. With the dock you just pop in the drive you want to save data to. Now that USB3 is out, with a USB3 dock and a USB3 port, you can save data almost as fast, if not as fast, as saving data to an internal drive. JohnW -----Original Message----- From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of john p Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:10 AM To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com Subject: [photoshop-beginners] What is the Point? Why use an External Hard Drive as they have timescale and then when they no longer work you loose all your Photos or what ever you have on them. Thankyou BigJohn UK ------------------------------------ Please check out our sister group, attachments allowed-Photoshop by Example http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ps-by-ex/ Yahoo! Groups Links

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