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For laptop users, a cheaper system for external backup
is
Hardware (tigerdirect.com):
CoolMax CD-309 USB 2.0 3.5" External Hard Drive
Enclosure $40
Western Digital 120GB / 7200 RPM / 8MB / ATA-100 /
EIDE Hard Drive $70
Software:
Windows, Start, All Programs, Accessories,Sysem
Tools/Backup or just creat a macro Free
or
FileBack PC 4.0 or ViceVersa $25/$29
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--- Jay <JayTownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've done essentially the same thing for backup
> except I use a second
> internal hard drive. A couple of months ago I
> bought a Maxtor external 200
> MB drive and it was a bust. There were obviously
> errors with the drive, it
> would crash and shut off or it wouldn't even start
> up. Fortunately I bought
> it at Costco and was able to take it back. Had I
> not got it at Costco,
> Maxtor would have required that I send it to them
> for "new" one (per their
> communication), which I didn't want to do. I'll
> have nothing to do with an
> external drive for a while - one of the main reasons
> is that a recent
> article in PC Magazine said the majority of them
> have a mean time between
> failure of 1 year!!! That's no where near the
> reliability of an internal
> drive.
>
> Just my opinion, but any HD backup beats CD/DVD
> backup for me.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> <<My solution was to spend the equiv of $200 on a
> USB external 60Gb hard
> drive
> and backup scheduling software (not the windows one
> - it creates it's own
> compressed files which is a pain). So every day,
> while I'm busy eating my
> dinner and watching people kill each other on BBC
> news, my computer busies
> itself by copying any recently changed files in the
> entire c:/program
> files/equis directory, amongst others, to 'drive G'.
> >>
>
>
>
=====
Dave Tolbert
Blue Skies!
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