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I also like hard drives the best. I have 2 hard drives on each computer.
Both can be pulled out and exchanged in one second. And I also have 2
external USB hard drives that just have to be plugged into the USB port.
Very easy, simple, fast and reliable. Also have been very lucky. Have
never had a hard drive failure.
I also use the CD-RW drive for saving a few files at times.
At 07:17 PM 3/30/01 -0700, William Wood wrote:
>With all due respect nothing can beat backing up to a second or even third
>hard drive. That setup is far ahead of anything in speed, cost, reliability
>and retrievability. I have two desktop computers and a laptop on an
>ethernet LAN. The two desktops have 2 15gb hard drives each. I backup
>important stuff onto 2 other hard drives. Less important stuff just gets
>backed up onto one other drive. Gary mentions hard drive failure as a risk
>inherent in using hard drives as backup media. I respectfully disagree.
>You have your data on hard drive #1 and your backup of that data on hard
>drive #2 and maybe even another backup on hd #3. There is virtually no way
>even two hard drives are going to fail simultaneously. Thus there is less
>danger than any other media. As to off premises storage I ftp my MS Money
>file (the only file I have that I couldnt live without) to my son to store
>on his hard drive. Sometimes I take my laptop over there to make the
>backup. Some people back up everything. I only backup data. I can restore
>my O/S and software from the original disks in a few hours if I have a disk
>failure. I have been using computers full time since 1983 and I have never
>had a hard drive fail. I probably shouldnt have said that. All 5 will go
>south tomorrow to spite me. :o)
>
>Bill Wood
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: M. Simms [mailto:prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 4:08 PM
>To: fritz@xxxxxxxx
>Cc: Omega-List
>Subject: RE: Off-topic: Tape Backups
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>Wait....what about the good old Omega Jazz drives as an
>alternative.....reliable, fast, and removeable....
>I have the old 1 gig, but there is now 2 gigs I believe.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gary Fritz [mailto:fritz@xxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:04 PM
>> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Off-topic: Tape Backups
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>> > I've been using Ghost and a removable hard drive for backup for a
>> > couple of years now. I have a 30GB drive and back all up in disk
>> > images.
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>> That sounds interesting. I can't find any removable HD's on
>> shopper.cnet.com -- what are you using? Probably costs a bit more
>> than the $50 per 10GB I mentioned before. :-)
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>> > OK, now don't start flaming but I use a FAT32 driver on my NT 4.0
>> > system because I can restore individual files from the Ghost FAT32
>> > disk image.
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>> Couldn't you do that if both were NTFS? Or doesn't Ghost support
>> NTFS?
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>> Somebody on RT mentioned the Plextor CDRW drives. I did a bit of
>> digging and it sounds like they're getting the reliability problems
>> under control. The Plextor drives (and some others) use a technology
>> called BURN-Proof, which allows the drive to pause recording if it
>> runs out of data, then resume when its buffer fills up again.
>> http://windows.oreilly.com/news/pchardnut_0900.html says they used to
>> be afraid to move their mouse while burning a CD, for fear of
>> interrupting the burn. With the Plextor they successfully wrote a CD
>> while defragging their disk! So CDRW's might be a reasonable
>> alternative after all -- if you get the right drive.
>>
>> Gary
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