Main difference in the media is That as you indicated the hard drive can be over-written So any hardware, or finger glitch while using it can turn the read attempt into a delete/erase, or just corrupt the directory, space allocation, or partition tables.
DVD+/-R platters, being written as fixed file image sets should be far more secure from inadvertent corruption or erasure However as you indicate a hard drive in a caddy is a nice fast recovery medium, and if you just copy the OS partition, or whole drive you end up with a backup that is usable as the system - so avoiding most of the difficulties experienced when a hard drive is virus'd, or an OS patch goes bad ( I have a pair of old 10Gb drives that get inserted in a caddy, and have a boot manager and DOS partition with disk copy facility that I use to copy the OS partition onto the 10Gb drive) Recovery is eased because I have a working system as soon as I power off, switch the caddy'd OS hard drive to a spare drawer, slot in the 10GB caddied drive and restart. It's even simpler on the 'family' PC - that boots from the Master drive on IDE 1, and the caddy slot is for master on IDE 0 so simply slotting in the caddy drive over-rides the normal boot partition JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Software: Backing full volumes with NG 10. > Agree, and if you are willing to brave the mobs, Friday Staples will have a > >>>200 GB<<< internal HD (brand not specified) available for $30 after > rebate from 6 AM to 10 AM. > > I am not willing mingle with that many of my fellow men, but I have a spare > Seagate 160 GB drive sitting here and just took delivery today of an > aluminum USB 2.0/Firewire enclosure from Acortech for $30 net that I will > use for back ups. (I only back up data -- not programs or full drive image.) > > I also wish our US types here a very happy thanksgiving. > > - > Bill Hatcher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Carl Houseman > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 12:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WINHOME] Software: Backing full volumes with NG 10. > > > You spent 8 DL DVD's on a backup? > > Best price I've heard for DL DVD's is 10 for $20 (just this week) so you > spent at least $16 of write-once media, and probably much more if you bought > the DVD's before this week. > > For about $30 you could have bought an 80GB hard drive, spent less time > backing up, and used it over and over again. With removeable rack/tray > maybe $45 total. > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
