[Ardour-Users] Archive media

[Brett Clark]

>
> 1. Before a HDD fails it usually announce this by "click, click" noise,
> the time you should do a backup to another HDD.


In my experience when i hear the "click, click" noise it means i should have
backed it up the previous time i turned it on.  ;-)

Although, i have been saved by having the SMART monitoring on and it told me
that a drive was going to fail.

--Brett




On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:08 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Brett Clark <brett.clark at zirous.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Im watching the thread on cleaning up unused regions and its been
> mentioned
> > > a couple times that DVD isnt a good archive media, and im thinking
> "crap,
> > > thats what i use".  Over the years ive accumulated quite a few sessions
> that
> > > i will probably never use again, but i want to keep just in case.
> > > If DVD isnt a good option, then what are people using for permanent
> > > archiving of sessions?  Even hard disks have bit rot and i hate to keep
> a
> > > drive spinning to hold material i may never use again, or may want 10
> years
> > > from now.
> >
> > Right now I am backing up to a portable hard drive and storing in
> > fireproof safe... but yes, concerned about eventual failure of the
> > hard drive, unless one were to rotate the backups to multiple
> > drives...
>
> 1. Before a HDD fails it usually announce this by "click, click" noise,
> the time you should do a backup to another HDD.
> 2. Even if it fails, usually you can demount it, keeping the cable
> connections and hit it, so the heads usually will get free for a backup.
>
> I only lost data by optical media. Even HD disks magnetised with DD disk
> drives doesn't loos data.
>
> YMMV ;).
>
> - Ralf
>
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