Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!

2012-07-06 Thread W2PM
I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. Sent from my iPad On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:18, Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com wrote: I was distracted for a week trying to recover a lost disk but I put the SSD

Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!

2012-07-06 Thread Bill Cromwell
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:38 -0400, W2PM wrote: I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. Sent from my iPad Hi, I can't get past the fact that in the cloud I would be entrusting complete

Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!

2012-07-06 Thread Bob K6UJ
I'm with Bill, I still use external drives for backups for the same reason, but am tempted with the cloud Maybe our worries are unfounded ? Do the cloud systems back up the data (on external hard drives, :-) ? Bob K6UJ On Jul 6, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote: On Fri,

Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise! off topic material moved off list

2012-07-06 Thread Bill Cromwell
Hi, I have moved comments with interested people regarding backups and clouds, etc off list. I got into this thread because I too was getting intolerable interference form a desktop computer power supply. All the rest moved quickly off topic. On another note, I have had an opportunity to sniff

Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!

2012-07-06 Thread Mike Waters
I don't know about you, but we have data that is far too important not to make multiple backup copies ourselves. Think about whether you are willing to take a of risk losing it all because the cloud had a glitch or closed their doors. A large cloud service corporation has made news headlines more