Dangers of short term digital storage media

Professional photography in the digital world. What are the risks involved for our work and our clients and why are secure and reliable grandfather-father-son backup systems crucial? Read more on this issue and understand why professionals invest not only in photography equipment but also computer backup systems. Know what you are paying for as clients and why some of us charge what we do and yet struggle to survive. Here are two similar research carried out by two different groups based on two different data samples.

Disk failures in the real world:
What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?



Experts: No cure in sight for unpredictable hard drive loss



Those who have experienced it knows its unpredictable. HDD technology is like that. Those who have seen my workplace should understand why I have Lacie disks all carrying the identical data and also know and understand how much effort we put into data integrity wherever possible.

Personally, I'd rather be spend what clients pay me for data integrity and security than take a leisure holiday. You get what you paid for holds true.