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My Hard Drive Crashed
Gomboman:
--- Quote ---Gomboman I would suggest you get your self a good external hardrive and firewire it to your PC and do mirror image backups. This makes a mirror image (aka duplicate copy)of your main hard drive.
Curious? What was our OS on th old drive? Was it an original version or a upgrade to that OS?
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XP Workstation Original Version. Any suggestions on a decent external hard drive that I can purchase for next time? My system is old--3 years old. My bootable drive is a 80GB EIDE drive.
Campsalot:
I would suggest a Western Digital HD. Stay with the firewire as I think your PC's USB's will be to slow to hack the speed. Check this link out
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2204138&Sku=W10-3008
Good luck!
svspa:
gombo, campsalot,
Cnet did a review of these not too long ago:
[link]http://reviews.cnet.com/Western_Digital_MyBook_Premium_Edition_500GB_External_Hard_Drive/4505-3186_7-31793438.html[/link]
Super fast read speeds but not so good write speeds, maybe not the best for a backup drive.
I bought a couple of them for my kids when they went to college. Good for storing files that need fast read speeds (video, music), but with a backup drive you would be writing more than reading so maybe not the best.
Steve
vlady:
Sorry, but I cannot recommend the Western Digital external drives. Hopefully, they have improved over the last few years.
I purchased one a few years ago and within 30 days, it crashed. Fortunately, I hadn't backed up anything to it that I didn't have another copy of. I returned it to the manufacturer and they provided me with a new one.
This one seemed stable so we copied more than 30 websites along with all the original artwork to it. It crashed within 60 days. I took the drive to a data recovery place and they were unable to recover anything. It cost me several hundred dollars just to let them try the different methods of recovery and still they could not recover it - everything was lost.
Now I just back up everything to several different places. I figure my odds are pretty good that not all of them will crash at once.
svspa:
and of course the safest approach might be to get a dual layer DVD recordable drive and backup to DVD. You can then put the DVD's in a safe place. Not as automatic as a backup hard drive but as vlady points out even your backup HDD can fail.
Steve
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