Total HDD drive failures should NOT be catastrophic today because you really need to assume they are going to fail and make sure you are backing up everything you dont want to lose. I have been doing that since 1990 and have not lost anything I really wanted-needed. The key is to sort everything you have on the computer in your mind as (replaceable-dont care) or as (irreplaceble-do care) and always back up the latter, multiple backups the more you really want/need it. For example, my most important photos to me are my lifelong family photos. I have them backed up on external HDDs&CDs&and DVDS as well as on my active internal HDDS AND my remote webserver space. Those are not in any danger of being lost. Dont let your precious photos/documents be in any danger. With people upgrading less often and keeping PCs/HDDS in service longer, you are going to get HDD failures sooner or later. Dont make the bonehead mistake of losing anything you dont want to lose because you didnt backup. BACKUP and backup often. I now put critical documents/bookmarks/ emails/etc. on a USB memory stick and then unplug the stick every time I create them in additon to saving on my active HDDS. Why risk losing ANY personal datafiles you dont want to lose? Storage is cheap, just buy more and just backup.
Backup - because as they say : "Murphy is still alive" and he wrote a law about HDDs and other things..... JC O'Connell [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
