Encryption can be done locally; but what can be encrypted can be unencrypted if someone really wants to. Given the rash of allegedly secure information that has managed to get publically distributed these days with respect to major supposedly high security operations such as banks, corporations, governmental agencies that have lost confidential secure data, I would not dismiss security as being not much of an issue.
Of course there is always the problem of the hard drives and storage facilities at these online off-location data storage operations going bad, going down when you need to retrieve the data, or just getting corrupted despite any and all precautions. -----Original Message----- From: filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk [mailto:filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of li...@lazygranch.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:57 AM To: lau...@advancenet.net Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings Security isn't much of an issue these days since you coul d encrypt locally. Goin out of business is very likely. M ediastor was in the same business and went under. ---- -Original Message----- From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <lau...@ad VANCENET.NET> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:23:29 To: <l i...@lazygranch.com> Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Advice on scanner settings >I'd like to point out that I neve r had a Seagate product fail. Of >course, that could be luck. They come with 5 year warranties. I have had a c ouple of them go bad; but I have had a number of brands g o bad. Hard drives after all are mechanical devices; an d their internal parts do wear out, do get damaged, and do get overheated. Some brands go bad sooner than others even if they have extended long warrantees. When they d o it is a pain to send them back for warrantee service a nd to lose the data on them. >The offsite service is handy in the event of fire or theft. Yes, except if th ey go out of business or have security issues, which are distinct possibilities in this day and age. Like so man y others, I have found that many services offer good rat es and terms, good service and security, and the like wh en they are new and trying to establish themselves and a client base. However after the introductory offer or pe riod, things change with pricing going up, terms changin g, service and security declining, etc. By then, you ca n terminate your service or move to a different online s torage operation if things change to your disliking; but they count on the inconvenience factor and inertia to ke ep you even if things change for the worst. Most people overstay their welcome due to the inconvenience of movi ng their data from those storage facilities to new ones or purchasing additional drives to store the data on at h ome or at an external location like a bank vault. - ----Original Message----- From: filmscanners_ow...@halft one.co.uk [mailto:filmscanners_ow...@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of gary Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:05 AM To: lau...@advancenet.net Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings I'd like to point out that I never had a Seagate product fail. Of course, that coul d be luck. They come with 5 year warranties. Of course , I probably just cursed one of my drives by mentioning I had no failures. I've built PCs for people that would s pend the extra money for a Seagate and had the drives ar rive DOA. More than once mind you. One was from IBM, and the other Fujitsu, a company I thought had it's act tog ether. If you get external drives, consider spending a bit more and get esata. I have this general distrust of USB. http://www.carbonite.com/ These people advertis e heavily on http://techguylabs.com/radio/pmwiki.php I have no idea if the service is any good, but it is onli ne offsite storage, and relatively cheap. Offer code I b elieve is Leo, but you could just listen to any of his p odcasts and get the code. The offsite service is handy in the event of fire or theft. Tony Sleep wrote : > On 26/02/2009 li...@lazygranch.com wrote: >> I just bought three 1.5 terrabyte drives > > RAID can add res ilience but no way can it be considered safe, so don't > forget the other 4! > > Here I have: > 3 x 1TB RAID3 = 2TB > 2 x 1TB for backup (on another LAN PC) > 2 x 1T B for offsite backup. > > So that's 7 x 1TB for 2TB of storage. I don't trust HDD's much. > > -- > Regards > > Tony Sleep > http://tonysleep.co.uk > > ------- --------------------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to listse r...@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in th e message title or body --------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- ---- Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halftone.co.uk, w ith 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscann ers_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to listser...@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body