Well I guess with triple copies they won't likely all fail at once so you
can take a chance. I have my archives in duplicate because I cannot afford 3
copies of everything, and I doubt I'll have a problem but I guess it is
possible both copies of one of my drives could die together (I have 6 500GB
external drives, and each has a backup copy for a total of 12 drives).
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On 5/12/08 7:39 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not at all concerned about that. My backup drives run only during
> backup so they get almost no usage. In addition, they exist in
> triplicate. If you're concerned about failure I would guess that you
> don't have enough backup. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Chris Crawford wrote:
>> I'd be afraid that they'd fail or have a lot more bad sectors than a new
>> drive. They're refurbed but still used, and used HDs are a time bomb.
>> Cheaper to buy new rather than risk losing the hours of work on my photos
>> stored on them.
>>
>>
>>
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