[OzzyJim]

Gday,

I have been thinking about different ways of storing and backing up all the photo's that I have on my pc. At the moment I have all my photo's stored on external hard drives and thinking of just creating a copy of that drive to another for backup, the trouble is that with a very large number of files this can take a long time over USB 2.0 connection. I have been looking into different methods and like a mirroring raid solution as it seems to be a type of automatic backup. Looking further into this there are numerous types of ways you can set up a RAID array (IDE, SATA, SCSI, Fibre Channel etc).

My question is how do you do your backups and store files for easy access later?. Also how is this accomplished in a large studio setup, I imagine that a large commercial studio would have a striped / mirror combo over a SCSI or fibre channel connection for sheer speed and reliability. I have been looking into the SCSI striped / mirror combo for my own use but it is very expensive, speed is not as important for me as the backup but I really hate to wait when loading large PSD's etc.

James.