Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Thanks for the advice guys - going to look into the tape solution.
FWIW - these are not like medical records. Storing the images (the original scans) is more an issue of making subsequent jobs easier for us to do and edging competitors out. Losing these images internally will just create more...
Chrisroman - We burn a lot of microfilm. It isn't practical because we need to store original digital information of color or greyscale scans.
spankit - No, it doesn't always have to be online. Right now we keep our hard drives unplugged and use a Rosewill adapter to access the green...
I'm the IT guy for a fledging IT company that scans images for government. We generate 15TB-20TB a year in stuff we want to keep (high quality JPG scans). In the beginning, we archived on DVD's. About three years ago, we moved to high capacity hard drives. Making 2 copies of 2TB hard drives...