Are there cases for long-term HD storage?

B71655 · December 29th, 2002, 08:13 AM

Mike, I'm in printing. My plant has maybe $30 Million in digital imaging and printing equiptment. The files that are used to print customers work are carried over our in house net to workststions and back to the servers as many times as needed. Our back up systems are digital tape. Sorry, but I think that if that works for us, you are missing the boat. A tape jukebox is NOT cheap, but the backup is authenticated and automatic. If we need to restore, all is good. Not sure how many times it has been used, but it has. Lost files might make a Major Design House( they all like that title!) not come back. My .02 BrianP

sugardaddy · December 31st, 2002, 12:28 AM

There is a way to backup file safely using just harddrive alone but cost is the problem, can you buy another one just to store copies of the one your currently using. The ideas is to make copies on another harddive on a week to week basis. working well for me

Greasy Burger · December 31st, 2002, 02:59 AM

get one of those hard drives that the fighter jet use to record their whatever spy pictures

sugardaddy · December 31st, 2002, 04:09 PM

I am quite aware of that but for some reason it is more convenient to use another harddrive as backup, less time consuming but very costly due to hd cost 1gig per dollar at best. if you can get it really cheap throught rebate even better

if you have backed up like 300+ cdr like i did which took many hours and weeks to accomplish this task, you will be quite fed up by now hehe... unless you wanna go more expensive route DVDRW? Cheapest is CDR, 10 cents each with rebate deals.
i'm getting lazy or im finding cdr too incovenient. what good does it do to dig throught 300+ cdr to find what i want when i can find it all on a single harddrive that i copied to? incase of a harddrive crash on this computer which is either store on this computer as well or on a networked computer. like a clone, hench backup ideas is to make copies of the same filez...doesnt matter CDR, HD, ETC...if you think CDR are most realiable hmm you havent run into corrupted CDR yet lol some of which is unreadable and i still have to make 2 copies on CDR if i want more reliability... talk about painful backup.

brentmobile · January 28th, 2004, 07:44 PM

From what I can see all that was asked for was a way to store a HD. I have 30 ghosted drives that I want to put into simple individual containers to transport offsite instead of using a cardboard box or the anti-static bags. Plain and simple, a HD container. No alternate backup suggestions or negative comments please. Thank you.

shawshank62 · January 28th, 2004, 08:08 PM

You could always backup your data online, there are different services that offer this. But if it is somethign very classified i would shy away from this. You really wouldnt have to spend $400 for DVD and HD. I just got a new 80gb WD 8mb cache for $20 at staples this weekend and i bought a dvd-rw for 90 bucks. Then i look for when the dvds are on sale, and usually i can get them for free or at least very cheap.

Shop around and you can spend under $200. Always check the weeklys at staples, best buy, frys, etc.

zepper · January 28th, 2004, 08:08 PM

All of my business customers that I could convince to use them have not lost ANY data using a HD in a mobile rack. Of course I don't use the $10. or less ones.
. Kingwin and Vantec make some good ones. Easy enough to make or buy a padded carrying bag or box for the tray.
.bh.

jmichna · January 28th, 2004, 08:24 PM

How about a small, "fire-proof" safe on-site (say, in your basement)? Safes are available that are lined with firebrick and insulation, to certain fire-resistance standards (based on number of hours at a given temperature). I imagine a steel safe would also protect against stray magnetic fields, radio waves, and a fair amount of certain radiation, too

shawshank62 · January 28th, 2004, 09:56 PM

sorry for the thread crap...

i googled for magnetic field, but i was lost. can someone give a brief overview of what it is and what it can do to electronics?

Jeordiewhite · January 29th, 2004, 12:22 AM

Wow this is an old tread that is supprisingly dug up.
Well as for the magnetic field, for your monitor, tv, hdd, they are the main things that will be affected, with your monitor or tv you will notice a magnet will turn the monitor green when getting up close to it, if done for a long period of time that monitor will be permanantly ruined the phosphate on hte monitor screen i believe is what is being effected.
As for an hdd, data is stored by being written magnetically to the HDD, using a magnet on it will have dire effects to all data written on the hdd by erasing the whole disk.