I use Smartfan which includes some minor Smart stuff not sure how
complicated you need. Also free.
Stewart
At 03:06 PM 12/20/2007, you wrote:
Again so much help from the mac zealot.
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
That one isn't bad, free for personal use.
Mike
Rev. Ste
Again so much help from the mac zealot.
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
That one isn't bad, free for personal use.
Mike
On Dec 20, 2007 1:04 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It looks like SMARTReporter is for Macs. Is there a SMART diagnostic
> >utility for WinXP
>It looks like SMARTReporter is for Macs. Is there a SMART diagnostic
>utility for WinXP that you would recommend?
I would recommend not using a PC.
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It looks like SMARTReporter is for Macs. Is there a SMART diagnostic
utility for WinXP that you would recommend?
Thanks,
Richard P.
Tom wrote:
I use HDD Health to monitor SMART status, but it doesn't work with USB
drives, maybe because of the specs of the USB to EIDE interface. What
utility
> Where do you store your off-site backups?
At Iron Mountain's facility.
> A bare (not in a case) 3.5" hard drive will fit in a "small" bank safe
> deposit box, and is conveniently used with one of the many available
> "bare" interfaces (no case, just the electronics for data and power),
> e.g.,
Yes, but Time machine is still a local backup device... which few will
ever... despite good intentions ... remove from the premises.
When so many's essential biz is being done and stored on computer, not
having fail-safe backup is nonsensical. Determining the security of the
backup by the br
and what is that utility which tests the drives, where
do we find it.
Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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>I use HDD Health to monitor SMART status, but it doesn't work with USB
>drives, maybe because of the specs of the USB to EIDE interface. What
>utility do you use to monitor SMART status?
SMARTReporter
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>The nice thing about using a hard drive as backup media is that
>incremental backups are consolidated (by copying new/newer files) into a
>directory tree that is current and complete. Copying can be with or
>without "replicating deletions" so that old stuff can be preserved in the
>backup.
Where do you store your off-site backups?
A bare (not in a case) 3.5" hard drive will fit in a "small" bank safe deposit
box, and is conveniently used with one of the many available "bare" interfaces
(no case, just the electronics for data and power), e.g., USB to IDE/EIDE (or
SATA). Only the
At 09:34 AM 12/12/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>All drives should be checked regularly. I use a utility that tests SMART
>satus every few minutes and will issue a warning if that fails. I also
>run a disk utility about once a month. I check the backup logs almost
>every day. Rotating several drives
>I'm looking for opinions on the reliability of brands of external
>hard drives, the moderate-sized multi-MB stationary ones that are
>designed for storage and backups.
I have been using hard drives for backup for over 10 years with results
that are much better than when I was using tape. The
> I'm looking for opinions on the reliability of brands of external
> hard drives, the moderate-sized multi-MB stationary ones that are
> designed for storage and backups.
>
> Specifically, I have a 320 MB La Cie Firewire/USB2 drive (one of the
> cute little ones designed by Porsche) and a Crossfi
I use Mozy at home, of which I haven't had the chance to test the recovery
feature yet, and Iron Mountain at work for taking tapes offsite. The Mozy
backup is very simple to do. It's a very polished service.
I'm considering moving away from tape backups to disk-based with off-site,
online vaulti
Do you have an off site back up? If you have any critical data on
these machines you should rotate backups to a secure location away
from the machines in case of flood, fire etc. So that might mean
another set of backups or burning an occasional DVD of the most
critical stuff and storing it somew
I'm looking for opinions on the reliability of brands of external
hard drives, the moderate-sized multi-MB stationary ones that are
designed for storage and backups.
Specifically, I have a 320 MB La Cie Firewire/USB2 drive (one of the
cute little ones designed by Porsche) and a Crossfire br
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