Gutted

[scotty328i]

Took some really nice shots (IMO) a while ago

I only formatted my fcuking laptop - havent I - gutted is an understatement not had to get again but there were 3 dudes (early thirties) playing guitars on the beach and against the sunrise looked the dogs nuts!

Oh well sh!t happens I spose

Now can anyone reccomend me an external HD please?

Thanks

[GetCarter]

I use a bunch of these

http://www.warehouseexpress.co.uk/?photo/misc/laci...

...smaller/slower ones are now pi55 cheap.

[scotty328i]

Bloody hell thats good!

I was thinking about using disc's but they would end up getting scratched

[Bungleaio]

I was in a branch of maplins on sat. They are doing usb external hard drives, 320gb for £59.99.

I'm quite shocked how cheap they are now

[Mr Noble]

You know its very easy to get the pictures back even if you've formatted the HD (afaik)

My sis did it and some got all the info back again.

Nothing is actually deleted until its written over again. Its just made invisible and rewritable.

HTH
G

[F308 MAN]

please forgive my interruption, but do these hard drives ever "fail" ?

d

[agent006]

www.mozy.com

I've got around 200gb of stuff backed up online with them for £40ish a year.

[KB_S1]

F308 MAN said:

please forgive my interruption, but do these hard drives ever "fail" ?

d

YES ABSOLUTELY.

HD's are a major PITA.
It is going to be a very real problem for music, movie and photography over the next few years.
Drives fail fairly regularly and unpredictably.

Backup regularly to other mediums and keep a check on latest formats. Obsolete formats will become a very dodgy issue.

[GetCarter]

This is why I have four of them!

[KB_S1]

GetCarter said:

This is why I have four of them!

Should see our machine room. I need a piece of software and a pot of coffee everyday just to keep track of it all!

Still have panics every now and again.

[dcw@pr]

a few months back I bought an external lacie/porsche 500gb disc from Overclockers for £72+VAT, i think it was on offer

[crmcatee]

buy two - back it up once a month, take one to the office and leave it there, repeat every month.

Even if your house goes on fire you've still only lost a maximum of a months worth of data.

[jeevescat]

I got one of these, 500 gig for 60 quid can't be bad, usb not firewire so not the fastest kid off the blocks but does the job.

Should have got two as suggested.

[F308 MAN]

KB_S1 said:

YES ABSOLUTELY.

Mmmm ... call me old fashioned, but i think i'll stick with the DVD storage routine.

i prefer to have something i can see on the bookshelf.

d

[KB_S1]

F308 MAN said:

KB_S1 said:

YES ABSOLUTELY.

Mmmm ... call me old fashioned, but i think i'll stick with the DVD storage routine.

i prefer to have something i can see on the bookshelf.

d

How long will the ink and polycarbonate last though?

Only way to be safe is to have multiple backups on different formats in different locations.
Making use of online accessed server based storage is a good idea.