[AlexG]

In the words of Opus, Thrrrrrrrrrpt-thrrpt-thrrrrpt!

American Meadow Party, Bill the Cat for Prez in 2012!  😉  ;D

But I digress, please continue the discussion.  8)

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

Interesting, thus far into the polling (01/17/10) it seems that the most popular means/media of saving your FMG stuff is:

Portable HD        16 (42.1%)
USB Flash Drive   9 (23.7%) 
DVDs                    6 (15.8%)

Nearly twice as many use a Portable HD then the 2nd most popular contender.

I'm supposing that's because they're primarly interested in saving video rather then pictures & stories.

Polling will remain open until 01/25/10.  8)

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Robert McNay]

Interesting, thus far into the polling (01/17/10) it seems that the most popular means/media of saving your FMG stuff is:

Portable HD        16 (42.1%)
USB Flash Drive   9 (23.7%) 
DVDs                    6 (15.8%)

Nearly twice as many use a Portable HD then the 2nd most popular contender.

I'm supposing that's because they're primarly interested in saving video rather then pictures & stories.

Polling will remain open until 01/25/10.  8)

Actually, I voted external HDD because I don't back up just my pictures and videos, I back up my whole PC. Too many times folks back up just their data and the OS crashes. All their data is fine but they have to spend days reinstalling the OS and all their programs.

All I have to do is throw in a new HDD, plug in the external HDD and put the restore CD in the CD drive and I'm up again in 2 to 3 hours.

I do have a second external for just data so I can take it with me.

[GWHH]

i back up all my pc files one time a month onto DVD and everday files go onto my external hardrive

[Tonus]

I use an external RAID-1 device with two 500GB SATA drives.  I use it as my data drive, so that the only backups I bother to do are for my email archives.  I used to only have a single external HDD, but as my data archive grew I decided to add a bit of redundancy.

I also periodically back up my data files onto a blu-ray disc.  Online storage is becoming more common, but I like the idea of having my data nearby and within reach.

[massivebodybuilder]

I would strongly suggest using one of the Netgear Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices.

They have two, four and six drive bay models and they all have a lot of great features. All of them can back themselves up online, they all have BitTorrent clients built in and the four bay models use about 60 watts of power at full load.

My favorite feature is the ability to stream audio, video files and pictures from the NAS to my PS3.

Another great feature is that it will alert you via email if a drive fails, the fan fails or something gets corrupt on the volume, etc. You can set it to turn itself on and off at certain times of the day and upgrading to larger drives or simply replacing a failed drive is very easy, but it does take a little time.

It is a bit pricey, but you can find very good used ones on ebay for decent prices. Once you have a NAS and start using it, you're realize just how incredible it is to have networked storage. If you work in an office and have file shares "on the network" this is the same thing.

Single external drives are great and offer a lot of storage for decent money. Services like Mozy are also great and I am definitely thinking about using the remote backup on my ReadyNAS. However, I don't like other people being responsible for or having my data on their equipment. I have a lot of music and bluray rips that I don't want someone snooping in and have it bite me in the rear.

For anyone that is an artist, I would strongly suggest getting a NAS device that has the ability to sustain one or two drive failures and not lose your data. My ReadyNAS has never lost anything I have on it. I've had two drives fail in it in the past, a simple swap out of the drive and let the NAS resync the drives and it was back in action.

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