Digital BW, The Print

This is a very troubling comment. I just added and external firewire 
drive to archive my digital photos (I'd filled up all my USB ports and 
thought it might be a good idea to have some diversity in my hardware 
configuration.) Is there some particular activity that triggers the 
corruption, or just ordinary use? The drive I'm using is actually a 
2-way model, that has both firewire and USB2 connectors, and I suppose I 
could add another USB card to the computer if that would provide better 
reliability. Any idea what causes the failure?

Cheers,
Kip

John Moody wrote:

>Just a note on firewire drives for Windows users.
>I thought they were the best things since sliced bread.  I have 1550 Gigs of
>them on my machine.
>I read and write a lot of data to them, a staggering amount some might say.
>
>Here is the problem.  On windows, the data goes through windows drivers to
>handle the firewire ports.  For some reason, that allows for a rare but
>crippling corruption of the drive.  I have suffered 4 total corruptions of
>the firewire drives, and came to this conclusion after discussion with a
>level-2 engineer from a \ufffdfamous\ufffd drive manufacturer.  I have had no such
>corruptions with internal drives, and I write even more data to them, 250
>Gig per day is not unusual.
>
>This is just my experience, I\ufffdm not a computer hardware engineer so take the
>information as you see fit.
>
>Best regards,
>John Moody
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