On Nov 25, 8:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: LaCie external HD > > > So folks, I spent $ 403.72 and lost all my work, research, and information > for the past two years. > I can sympathise with losing lots of data, but hard drives fail. Maybe today, maybe ten years from now. The brand, capacity, etc are all irrelevant in guessing when. The only certainty is that it *will* fail at some point. A single hard-drive is not a backup, it is a single point of failure. Luckily, you can now get multi-disk RAID protected external storage boxes for fairly cheap. (Or to put it another way, what was that data worth to you?) The hard-drives in these boxes will still fail eventually, but you'll get to keep your data as long as they don't all go at once. Here's a link to one such unit, chosen randomly, there are many other vendors, and many different prices: http://www.micronet.com/products/rb4.htm?gclid=CPiuv-jDk5cCFRdinAodxQa4JA The rule-of-thumb is that you only backup the data you don't want to lose. So if the data you are putting on one of these drives is of real importance to you, you should invest in a magnetic tape backup, which is still the industry standard, but also expensive. The machines I maintain for my employer have some of the most expensive, thoroughly tested hard-drives you could ever imagine, made redundant via RAID, and we **still** make daily tape backups to insure we don't lose anything. > My discs from 2002 are still working beautifully. > Just a coincidence. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
