PROBLEM: Scanned thousands of slides and hundreds of video tapes. Therefore require lots of disk storage and more importantly RELIABLE storage.
SOLUTION: Thought of purchasing a couple of 500 GB external drives (or even TB drives). Thought of having an enclosure, or something of the sort, that could house three to four HDDs. I'd like to be able, for instance to back everything up into one (or two) disk(s) and have this (these) disk(s) removed and kept elsewhere for safety while working with the ones storing the original copies of my files. (I don't believe I need the RAID sophistication -- I'm not thinking of hot swap-ability or real time redundancy). This enclosure, I suppose, would connect to USB or Firewire and have its own power source
QUESTIONS: Is there an enclosure that would do the job? Is the set up above viable? Would it be best to just purchase as many external disks as needed -- each with its own enclosure? Any word on HDD reliability? [Maxtor has large drives (One Touch III and II) in a reasonable price point, but have read about its reliability reputation. So I'm kind of leery about them]. Is there a problem keeping a HDD on a book shelf without connecting it to the computer for extended periods of time?
MY SET UP: Windows XP SP2 Multimedia Center on a VAIO; two internal HDDs: Ultra ATA/100 Seagate HDD (One 200 GB the other 250 GB).
I'd appreciate any help, advice, or recommendations.
Thanks a lot.
Armando
SOLUTION: Thought of purchasing a couple of 500 GB external drives (or even TB drives). Thought of having an enclosure, or something of the sort, that could house three to four HDDs. I'd like to be able, for instance to back everything up into one (or two) disk(s) and have this (these) disk(s) removed and kept elsewhere for safety while working with the ones storing the original copies of my files. (I don't believe I need the RAID sophistication -- I'm not thinking of hot swap-ability or real time redundancy). This enclosure, I suppose, would connect to USB or Firewire and have its own power source
QUESTIONS: Is there an enclosure that would do the job? Is the set up above viable? Would it be best to just purchase as many external disks as needed -- each with its own enclosure? Any word on HDD reliability? [Maxtor has large drives (One Touch III and II) in a reasonable price point, but have read about its reliability reputation. So I'm kind of leery about them]. Is there a problem keeping a HDD on a book shelf without connecting it to the computer for extended periods of time?
MY SET UP: Windows XP SP2 Multimedia Center on a VAIO; two internal HDDs: Ultra ATA/100 Seagate HDD (One 200 GB the other 250 GB).
I'd appreciate any help, advice, or recommendations.
Thanks a lot.
Armando