Outside of losing 10 years of personal journals from CD's gone bad, I've
done alright with my array of devices. My present theory is this:
Spread your backups around. You only have to lose it all once to lose it
all.
JL
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John Carter wrote:
It very much depends on the brand and model. In the past six months I've
recovered data (for other people) from a 3 year old Western Digital IDE
drive (not bootable) and an 18 month old Samsung SATA drive (bad sectors
and not bootable). These were both desktop PCs, so not subject to the
mechanical abuse that laptops receive. On the other hand, I have an
ancient laptop that runs almost 24/7 on a drive that was used and of
unknown age when installed 3 years ago.
Thinking "no-years" leads to good backup practices ;-)
John
I heard 5 years, then I heard 2 years, then some-one told me they'd had
disks go bad in under one year. I'm down to thinking no-years. I think
it's one of those things where if it works - great! If it doesn't, good
thing I had another plan. I use external hard-drives, flash-drives,
online storage (Mozy) and email.
JL
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