External hard drive

[ian turner]

I like the Freecom for its portability and ability to bounce when dropped though that may not mean it is the best.

The Iomega ego drives are best for that I think.

Portables are better for surviving drops but are slower with lower maximum capacities and higher prices.
I have a 160gb Samsung S1 which is the length of a credit card and only a little wider and comes in a leatherette
wallet.
But if you're after backups then you're not looking for portability so much (don't start off on offsite backups please ) and a NAS drive with capacity for multiple drives would be better as you could leave it next to the router but then more expensive and requiring technical knowledge.

 

[scots_lass]

Best I've had so far is a Western Digital Passport.

Ordered a Western Digital Passport drive today at 500Gb. Fingers crossed. I've never bothered too much in the past about backing up but all of a sudden it seems important! Possibly because I have now scanned hundreds of old photos on to my PC and thrown away the originals!

 

[ian turner]

thrown away the originals!

Well no one will be finding those in a box in the future so you're successfully erased from history

 

[scots_lass]

Not so! I got them all printed up into an album once I had scanned them into my PC. THEN I threw away the originals!

 

[ian turner]

Not so! I got them all printed up into an album once I had scanned them into my PC. THEN I threw away the originals!

So you scanned them into a pc, threw them away then printed new copies ?
What is the life expectancy of photo prints as I seem to remember figures of 10 years being quoted as good a while back
and assume they still have a shorter life expectancy than the film copied variety

 

[scots_lass]

Stop trying to burst my bubble! I am happy that instead of having prints tucked into almost every drawer and cupboard in the house, they are all now sorted out and the ones I want to keep are all tidily in an album (well 2 actually). And backed up on my PC. I did keep the half dozen or so prints that were over 60 years old ..........