Re: [Texascavers] Re: archiving your cave data

[Rod Goke]

That's why it's good to buy extra external hard drives and make multiple copies. It doesn't have to be very expensive. I recently bought a used 100GB external USB drive for $20 and a used 200GB external Firewire/USB drive for $40. Both of these were purchased from individuals on Craigslist, appeared to be in excellent physical condition and have functioned properly in the testing I have done. Several months ago, I bought several used 20GB internal drives for $5 each from the Goodwill Computer Store (ComputerWorks) and found that they also tested good. For new, larger capacity drives, you frequently can find good buys by watching the weekly sales at Fry's Electronics (http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/). For, example, about a week ago you could have bought either a 320GB external USB drive or a 500GB internal SATA drive for about $50. Rod -----Original Message----- From: Mark Alman Sent: Dec 19, 2009 9:28 AM To: Rod Goke , TexasCavers Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: archiving your cave data Because they crash, too, Rod.   I have a $150 100GB ext. HD paperweight with a bunch of data that is lost now.     Mark From: Rod Goke <rod.g...@earthlink.net> To: TexasCavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 3:23:31 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: archiving your cave data Why archive data on CDs or DVDs at all? Why not use external hard disk drives instead? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com