I just lost 120Gb of music/films/photos/documents etc when my external drive decided to die this weekend. Lost all my South Park episodes too.
Still, I get to spend money on new stuff now so there is an upside. I feel a 250 or 300Gb drive coming my way soon!
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by The_Freeman » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:02 am
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by Frayo » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:58 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by oneno[/i]
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That hard drive looks like it could eat a man.
What a beast! I wish my cases looked like that. With my hybrid laptop-desktop-turntable-keyboard pile....I look like I just have a cloning facility on my desk.
With cases like that, I could make it look like Darth Vaders cloning facility or....
Thrawns facility on Mount Tanis (I still remember a few SW references)
<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Rfrayo/nerd2-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> "I ain't a-Frayo-No Ghost!!!"
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<img src="http://images.tigerdirect.com/skuimages/large/V13-3210-main.jpg">
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That hard drive looks like it could eat a man.
What a beast! I wish my cases looked like that. With my hybrid laptop-desktop-turntable-keyboard pile....I look like I just have a cloning facility on my desk.
With cases like that, I could make it look like Darth Vaders cloning facility or....
Thrawns facility on Mount Tanis (I still remember a few SW references)
<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/Rfrayo/nerd2-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> "I ain't a-Frayo-No Ghost!!!"
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by MattW » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:21 am
With the price of hard drives so low these days, in addition to backing up data, I now have a working copy of my operating system (everything less data, music etc.) and any major applications on a second drive, stored away in a zip-loc.
From experience, a hard drive always crap out at the most inopportune time, be it from failure or virus.
The 2 minutes it takes to swap the stored drive with a dead drive beats looking for startup CDs and installing software all over again.
MW
From experience, a hard drive always crap out at the most inopportune time, be it from failure or virus.
The 2 minutes it takes to swap the stored drive with a dead drive beats looking for startup CDs and installing software all over again.
MW
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by phillyidol » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:23 am
So I should back up all my programs too? I'm new to this.[?]
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by beatschool » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:11 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br>So I should back up all my programs too? I'm new to this.[?]
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If you're going to get a monster-sized drive, I recommend partitioning it and backing up your entire system to one of the partitions. Some of the drives mentioned have one button back up capabilities, so once you tell it what you need to have backed up, you press a button on the hard drive's case and it does all of the work. Very handy.
<br>So I should back up all my programs too? I'm new to this.[?]
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If you're going to get a monster-sized drive, I recommend partitioning it and backing up your entire system to one of the partitions. Some of the drives mentioned have one button back up capabilities, so once you tell it what you need to have backed up, you press a button on the hard drive's case and it does all of the work. Very handy.
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by SomebodySomewhere » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:48 pm
[quote][i]Originally posted by Jefe[/i]
<br>SS, don't know about the weather where you live, but I live in the lightning strike capital of the world. I never leave my external hard drive plugged in. If I get hit with a power surge that will fry my computer it will take my external along with it.
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I don't live in the lightning strike capital of the world, I use the power surge protector strips, and I always turn everything off and pull the plug to the power strip when an electric storm is coming.
The My Book is not going to have anything on it that won't be on my internal drives, since it's certainly not crash-proof itself. It's just for backup. I'm sure I'll continue to use the 9.4GB double-sided DVD-RAM carts, as well, just to have the important stuff in 3 places (when I get around to that). Little chance of losing anything that way.
<br>SS, don't know about the weather where you live, but I live in the lightning strike capital of the world. I never leave my external hard drive plugged in. If I get hit with a power surge that will fry my computer it will take my external along with it.
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I don't live in the lightning strike capital of the world, I use the power surge protector strips, and I always turn everything off and pull the plug to the power strip when an electric storm is coming.
The My Book is not going to have anything on it that won't be on my internal drives, since it's certainly not crash-proof itself. It's just for backup. I'm sure I'll continue to use the 9.4GB double-sided DVD-RAM carts, as well, just to have the important stuff in 3 places (when I get around to that). Little chance of losing anything that way.
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