I like your idea, but why "Dismount, disconnect, and unplug the drives when not in use for backup."?
Maris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Do yourself a huge favor: > > - Buy a pair of Seagate 500Gbyte external drives. I was at Fry's just > yesterday ... in USB 2.0 only enclosures, these drives would cost > $119 apiece; USB2/FireWire 400 enclosures and the price goes up to > $190 right now. > > - Move all the data from the CDs/DVDs to one of the drives. > > - Copy the entire drive to the other. > > - Backup new data, as you generate it, to both drives. > > - Dismount, disconnect, and unplug the drives when not in use for > backup. > > When they become outdated by 1Terabyte drives at the same price, buy > another pair and move the data to them. > etc > > It's the most efficient, easily maintained, reliable backup/archive > system available today. You can get some low-cost backup software > that will make doing this job fast, easy, consistent and efficient. I > do this myself, have been for five years now. It works flawlessly and > is FAR easier to maintain than mountains of CDs and DVDs. And it's > fast enough to actually be useful. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
