• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Back up your data (photos, videos) TONIGHT!

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In terms of cost, compatibility, convenience, and durability I think external USB magnetic drives clearly have headed the pack and will for years to come. Any flexible magnetic or magneto-optical media has always had the problem of most failures being catastrophic. USB solid state memory is getting pretty good, but still depends on electronics that are entirely internal to the device -- if it fails it's dead for sure. Solid state memory block data transfer rates also still lag behind HDDs.

Mirror contents and rotate drives between an offsite store like a safe-deposit box and home/office. Do the same using and verifying a full compressing image backup program such as Acronis for the contents of the computer HDD with very regular incremental backups to the on-site drive. File mirroring of only new and changed files between drives can be done pretty quickly while using the computer for other things.
 
If anybody is interested, Best Buy has an 8 gig USB drive on sale for 35 bucks. I picked up two yesterday. Not a bad deal IMO.
 
Of course at some point, it gets to be too much. Sometime you just have to accept a loss. But not to take away from the advice. I'm not sure if I'd go throwing HDs at friend's houses...but that's me. I think a simple firebox able to hold the HD is good enough.
 
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