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<blockquote data-quote="Woodyg3" data-source="post: 751630" data-attributes="member: 24569"><p>My primary external hard drives stay on and attached to my desktop computer, while my backup drives are only attached and on when I'm actually making backups. I use small portable hard drives for backups, and have been using powered desktop hard drives for my main drives. I just attached a 2TB SSD for my working Lightroom catalog, and it is certainly faster when uploading pictures and performing certain functions in LR and PS. I still back this up with a portable, regular spinning hard drive. </p><p></p><p>I'm sure glad I make regular backups. I recently accidentally erased a whole 3TB drive with pictures from 2015-2017. I had an exact copy on another drive, though, and was able to restore everything just fine. (whew!)</p><p></p><p>One reason I never leave my backup drives on and connected is if there was ever a lightening strike of huge power surge, I certainly don't want both my primary and backup drives destroyed at the same time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Woodyg3, post: 751630, member: 24569"] My primary external hard drives stay on and attached to my desktop computer, while my backup drives are only attached and on when I'm actually making backups. I use small portable hard drives for backups, and have been using powered desktop hard drives for my main drives. I just attached a 2TB SSD for my working Lightroom catalog, and it is certainly faster when uploading pictures and performing certain functions in LR and PS. I still back this up with a portable, regular spinning hard drive. I'm sure glad I make regular backups. I recently accidentally erased a whole 3TB drive with pictures from 2015-2017. I had an exact copy on another drive, though, and was able to restore everything just fine. (whew!) One reason I never leave my backup drives on and connected is if there was ever a lightening strike of huge power surge, I certainly don't want both my primary and backup drives destroyed at the same time. [/QUOTE]
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