Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Grant" 
<gphoto2@...> wrote:
>
> All data is store
> separately on a 1TB Lacie Firewire 800 drive.

We have had two external 500 GB Lacie Firewire drives fail on us. 
Fortunately we had made two offline copies of each file so we did not 
lose anything. I have read elsewhere that the quality of the hard 
drives Lacie uses is not as good as Seagate, Western Digital, etc. The 
bottom line for us is that we have to maintain at least two copies of 
every master file, ideally one online with RAID (in our case RAID 5)
and one offline (and off site). If there is no online copy we make two 
offline copies and take one off site.

After the Lacie failures we switched to Seagate external drives and so 
far have had no failures.

William Real
Carnegie Museum of Art