Hard drives can and do fail suddenly and without warning. But your backup strategy seems to consist entirely of adding more hard drives! This is certainly incorrect, but you don't need to wait for blu-ray; use DVDs like the rest of us do. Any good compression program (e.g. 7zip) will split large files so they can span multiple disks.
I understand that for some work you may need lots of online storage. That's why I asked *why* you needed all those drives. Really, you only need two - one for Windows, one for data and to write daily image backups of Windows to. These can both be internal. There's nothing wrong with having two externals for your monthly backups, just remember to keep alternate ones off-premises. If one loses formatting, chances are it won't matter. On Jan 31, 2008 8:18 PM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony B wrote: > > > > I can't recommend much else because I have no idea why you've got so > > many drives hooked up or what you do with them. Try to consolidate. > > > I'm not sure that I understand your recommendation. > > According to Belarc Advisor, I have about 1.3 terabytes of hard drive > storage. "Why so many drives" is that my PC computer will accept only 3 > internal hard drives (bays), and only two of these may be SATA. As my > disk space ran out, I purchased additional external hard drives with > either USB 2.0 or IEEE 1394 interfaces. Right now I am running out of > disk space and thinking that either I have to clean older files or buy > another large hard drive. > For those who have large and important files that need to be kept, is > there a better way of backing up than I am doing? With so much data, is > there an alternative -- maybe BlueRay disks? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
