on 26/06/2003 11:13 am, Paul Tansley:
> If someone mentions hard disks being unreliable. Think about it. That's the > whole point of backing up. Of course there is a possibility of them failing, > that's why you have one main copy on your computer. One back up copy on site > and one copy off site. If you are unlucky enough to have all three fail on > you, then you should probably lock yourself in a room full of cotton wool, > because you're probably so unlucky that you'll trip over and fall down the > stairs any second. Or you could simply buy another hard drive and store it > in a bank or something. Can you believe it, just setting a similar system up to protect my on going work, 2 mirrored hard drives with an archived version on DVD. Whilst archiving before installing the second HD my main HD failed, it's only 18 months old showed no signs of temperament and looks as if the circuit board has failed. You can't win can you. Fourtunately I am fairly sure that I have archived most of what I would want back but it will take a day to sort. The moral being "don't put of till tomorrow what you could do today", not that I don't work long enough hours already. 120gb firewire drive, 180.00 ex vat, got to be better than tape. Regards Sam =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
