Chuck,
Does this mean that you don't back up your data on CD's?
Boris in RI
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:48:05 -0400
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Re: This would never happen with your OM images
Watch the Sunday paper ads for Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, etc.
and
you can put together a large backup device for very little money. I
recently bought two ATA to USB 2.0 external drive cases at CompUSA for
$30 each. They're fairly well made and have small cooling fans. At
the
same time I managed to buy a Western Digital 160 GB drive for $40 after
rebates. Today I bought a Seagate 160 GB drive at Best Buy for $50
after rebates. Now I have two 160GB external drives for backup.
Note that these drives are ATA/EIDE drives which I think are about to
be
displaced by newer technology called Serial ATA (SATA). I bought two
of
the ATA to USB cases. If one of them fails 5 years from now I won't
likely be able to buy another. However, since I have two of them I'll
use the other case to copy the data from both drives off to whatever
technology is then current. The drives themselves should have a very
long life since they only need to be powered on when actually working.
Chuck Norcutt
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