Posted on 04/07/2014 8:52:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Backing up your computer is essential to protect against viruses and malware as well as mechanical failure of the hard drive. Your digital photos are especially irreplaceable. An external hard drive like this makes back-up quick and easy, but store that external hard drive securely. If your house is destroyed in a fire or blown apart by a tornado or hurricane that external drive sitting by your computer could well be destroyed too. Cloud storage is one option, but simply backing up your digital photos to a flash drive(s) and keeping them in your bank safety deposit box is a cheap alternative too.
Yep. Thanks for the links - people should know what they’re getting into...
My work laptop has two drives in RAID1 - if one fails I’m good to go again in a few minutes - unless the error is caused by software, as I (painfully) found out some years ago when installing SP3 for XP from MS’s own server and it somehow nuked both drives at once. Argh! I was too lazy to remove the second drive for the update and synch the drives later. Lesson learned. Luckily I had a recent backup on an external drive.
An external backup is *always* mandatory.
Soon to be available in Blu-Ray capacity.
At the Fort Worth Radio Shack outlet tent sale many years ago, I saw a full length ISA board that allowed data backup to VHS tape players. No software or drivers. They always had something cool at those sales, but I left this one be.
More junk from a drive manufacturer. This garbage started with LaCie’s Bigger Disk with a RAID0 of 2 drives created by the bridgeboard inside the enclosure. Now Seagate bought LaCie and is bringing that crap to their own product lines.
Problem is, the RAID is created by the firmware on the bridge. Break the bridge and you break the RAID. You have to move the drives to an identical bridge to remount the RAID and access the data.
Far better to just use a single 4TB drive enclosure and a single drive. If you have to use RAID0, do it with your operating system in software RAID. That way you can move the drives to anything and the RAID will still mount.
I have nothing against a RAID0 - like anything, with a backup, it is fine. I have a lot of complaint towards firmware based RAIDs that are too easy to break and too hard to fix,
Rick
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