The disk that I keep my photos on seemed to go a bit off kilter. I decided I had better get a new one. I also decided to see if I could improve the performance of my system while I was at it. I could get a new 2.0TB drive for $99.99. It was USB 3.0. I do actually have a USB 3.0 port on my machine. Maybe this was time for a little upgrade. I have used the USB 3.0 port for a USB 2.0 hub. Hence everything was operating at 2.0 speeds. One of my other drives was 3.0, but hooked up to a 2.0 port is is just like any other 2.0 disk. So I got a new hub that was USB 3.0. Well, it took a long time to move my photography files (650 GB) onto the new disk. Once that was done I started experimenting with file transfers. Using my backup software I found that data moves 2.5 times faster when I am backing up from a 3.0 device to another 3.0 device. So, I got an improvement and I was happy with it.

Today's photo is of the disks that I keep hooked up to my computer. The one next to the hub contains all my original files. The middle one contains all my photography files. The right one is a back up disk for the other two. I also have a large drive hooked up to my router which I use for back up. One more safety precaution is that I keep a drive in the safety deposit box which I bring home occasionally and run a backup onto it. I hope that keeps my data integrity up to snuff.

Just for fun, I calculated how many 360k floppies would be needed to back up 2 TB. It would take over 5,500,000. Can you imagine sitting there feeding your old original PC that many disks? Me neither.