Hi Chris!
You are *probably* OK leaving drives in an unheated environment.
Seagate says its drives are OK down to -40, although they should be
warmed up to freezing (32 F) before use.
Out here in Colorado, I keep several drives in a small insulated ice
chest in the trunk of my car, each drive in its own zip-lock freezer
baggie. In four years, no problems.
As for your garage, is it detached from the house? If one burns down,
will the other go with it?
Redundancy is always good. I back up with three hard disks for each
computer. Two are CCC/SuperDuper images, which leapfrog each other on
a weekly basis. The third is used with TIme Machine. Plus periodic
DVDs of critical folders to an Undisclosed Location. In 24 years of
computer use I have never lost a file, except for those I deliberately
and foolishly threw away.
On Dec 8, 4:51 am, darkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When swapping drives weekly, what is the procedure to update the
> freshly swapped drive?
> Can an external drive safely
> be kept in a weathertight {detached!} garage during the week it's not
> in use in the NY winter?
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