Stop - Backup

<Sigh> What a disaster. <Sniffle>. Everyone - stop what you are doing and backup all your data on your hard drives there is something in the air it seems. I had one of those... "What's that strange clicking noise?! Oh <expletive deleted>" moments Thursday! By the time I had my external pluged in half my RAID0 was toast. Now you might be saying - "RAID0? How stupid!" Considering I coverted my Raid1 to RAID0 only a month ago for the very nice performance boost I would have to agree. Also stupid was not having done a full backup since September. So - once again - stop what you are doing right now and check your backup status. <This public service message brought to you by PSW>

Ouch ...

Ouch. I remember my last foray with Raid 0 - halves your mean time to catastrophic failure. Luckily that was just my work computer, so nothing of value was lost.

Yea - I have several servers at work that use a Raid5 configuration and really should know better.

The reliability of the newer solid state drives will be interesting - I agree fats. However, plenty of photographers have had heart attacks after C-Flash cards have died on them during weddings – hence high end cameras that write to two different cards at the same time.

I got this laptop too soon for two SS-Drives to be affordable. I thought I was cutting edge dropping the DVD drive bay and going with a second drive – now I don’t feel so smart. Haha. Well – back to re-editing.

If memory serves me right, Kodak used to have a pretty good back up solution!