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Dymonds:
Calling for all those in the know for advice on what is the best storage medium. Have just bought a MacBook Pro 17" and when discussing options for storage it became apparent that none of the external hard drives types last any longer than c. 7-10 yrs. Surely with all the investment in DSLR's there is something out there that will last.
Also wanting to know what I can use out in the field (given my Mac isn't exactly portable)

bvukich:
Get a NAS, minimum of 4 drives, RAID 10, replace it every 3-5 years, migrate data.

bvukich:

--- Quote from: bvukich on May 17, 2011, 06:41:56 PM ---Get a NAS, minimum of 4 drives, RAID 10, replace it every 3-5 years, migrate data.

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Now that I think about it, RAID 10 is overkill, RAID 5 or 6 is probably more appropriate.

CR Backup Admin:
I do not know of any technology that will last forever. 

Hard drives wear out and must be replaced.  I just upgraded my 4 drive NAS to a 6 drive one.  I've had the old one about 7 or 8 years(running 24/7).  It still works fine and has never lost any data.  However, after that long, NAS speeds have increased a lot.  The old one would do 23-25mb/sec at the very most, and usually a lot less.  The new one commonly runs 110 mb/sec or a little faster for large video files, but small files still transfer much slower, about 55-60mb/sec.

Six 2TB hard drives cost much less than 4 250GB hard Drives 7 years ago.  In another 7 years, SSD's might have dropped enough in price to be practical for large volume storage.  I use a 128GB SSD as a Windows7 Boot drive all my data is on a conventional hard drive and backed up to the NAS every 2 hours.  I have two PC's and my laptop with SSD drives now, and I'm planning on doing one more.

neuroanatomist:

--- Quote from: Dymonds on May 17, 2011, 06:27:13 PM ---Calling for all those in the know for advice on what is the best storage medium. Have just bought a MacBook Pro 17" and when discussing options for storage it became apparent that none of the external hard drives types last any longer than c. 7-10 yrs. Surely with all the investment in DSLR's there is something out there that will last.
Also wanting to know what I can use out in the field (given my Mac isn't exactly portable)

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I use LaCie external drives with FW800- one at home and at work - for backing up my RAW images.  If you have the newest MBP with Thunderbolt, data transfer will be mugh faster with a Thunderbolt external drive.  Every so often, as drive capacities increase and costs decrease (and RAW files get bigger), I get larger drives.  I also use a LaCie FW800 bus-powered drive for additional portable storage.

For truly portable storage, consider something like the Epson P-7000.

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