They say hindsight is 20-20 and celebrity/lifestyle photographer Jim Jordan has clearly learned that lesson the hard way. Last November, Jordan's image backup system went down unexpectedly, wiping out his entire digital archive. The event, which he refers to as "the meltdown," knocked out his onsite RAID backup system, endangering some 100,000 stored images. "I was in jeopardy of losing pretty much 25 years of my photographs," Jordan says. "My whole archive was there, aside from my hard copies. It could've been a disaster." What makes the event even more ironic was that Jordan had been planning for months to overhaul his backup system to prevent just such an occurrence when his RAID went down.
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