Digital BW, The Print

Sure have.  I, also, have switched to hard drives for data archives.

So far, the hard-drive vendors have kept up with my photo library.  All I have still fits on a single drive; now, that's a 2 TB (2000 GB, nominal) drive.

I simply buy a new external (or internal) drive, copy everything to it, and store it somewhere.  When I've bought photographic services that delivered files, I copied the files to an online drive, and they also are archived in due course.  I have not reused the older drives, so by now I have many copies of everything.  

One external hard drive did fail; it wasn't holding backups - it was my main library disk.  A recovery service couldn't salvage anything (and so they charged nothing).  Now I put my eggs in more baskets.

An external drive comes formatted (in most cases - pay attention if you care), but may have idiosyncratic software included, weighs more, and is bulkier to store.  I bought an external docking station for SATA hard drives, and have started buying an internal SATA drive for each archive.  I now need to store only the bare drive each cycle.  The big downside is that my PC spends hours formatting the drive before I can start backups (which take over a day).  

Separate from the above stuff, I have a backup program that automatically backs up files shortly after they have changed.  It writes to another external disk.  (At the moment, that's a Buffalo TerraStation storage server, but when it fails, I'll replace it with a plain external USB-connected hard drive.)

Dick

--- "Lew" <lew1716@...> wrote:
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> Has anyone actually experienced this?