[geRV]

Im talking about if your backup drive fails, usually that will be the largest drive of all your drives, if it does fail then you still have your info on your os drives but have to go and buy another backup drive.

Dvd's may not be ideal but what i would consider to be a good backup solution would be a blu-ray recorder. At the minute they hold upto 50 gigs for movies, for a recordable blu-ray its 25gigs max at the moment(i think) and theres alredy discs in testing holding 200 gigs.

For a 2x bluray writer you're talking £500+ which is over $1000. May be expensive but if you have shit you don't want to lose i suppose its worthwhile, just burn the data and store them out of the way and you always have your backups.

[anti]

Originally Posted by geRV

Im talking about if your backup drive fails, usually that will be the largest drive of all your drives, if it does fail then you still have your info on your os drives but have to go and buy another backup drive.

back up drive fails that's what, 50 bucks down the drain? (plus i get these drives free so i don't really care). if the terabyte drive fails that's what, how much down the drain along with all your info? i don' see any problem in backing your shit up on drives. i can't imagine a drive sitting around in a clean well kept spot would just fail for no reason without any use. besides, i get these all for free and they are all 250s so who cares really.

[geRV]

Originally Posted by anti

i can't imagine a drive sitting around in a clean well kept spot would just fail for no reason without any use. besides, i get these all for free and they are all 250s so who cares really.

annoy:


Hard drives have a pretty high failure rate compared to the other components in your pc. A hard disk based backup is not really a practical solution because of this. Why do you think companys use tape drives etc if hard drives were so dependable? cuss:

[anti]

Originally Posted by geRV

annoy:


Hard drives have a pretty high failure rate compared to the other components in your pc. A hard disk based backup is not really a practical solution because of this. Why do you think companys use tape drives etc if hard drives were so dependable? cuss:

ok. you're right.

[geRV]

Originally Posted by anti

ok. you're right.

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