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To: Spots who wrote (1827)	8/1/1998 6:17:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) of 14778

>>single 14 gig drive and then add another<< I am also in the never have a big enough harddrive camp. It will be a long time before (if ever) harddrives will be large enough to satisfy my needs. I want EVERYTHING on my machine. Photos, music and movies make this an impossibility for the foreseeable future. I am still recovering from my last harddrive crash. I am trying to restore 4 GB. My home backup procedures have been minimal up to the last crash. I had a selective critical data file style of backup. Ninety nine percent of the 4 GB is of the non critical nature. It is difficult talking about a single 14 GB drive unless backup procedures are incorporated. My personal preference is for two harddrives. Be gentle on me Sean. Can we consider this a piece in a larger backup strategy? I understand the risk of having the backup in the same machine. Removable/remote media needs to be considered in any complete backup routine. Of the ten or so harddrive failures I have experienced ALL have been single drive failures. I believe the risk of a failure of one drive is very small compared to the risk of two drives failing at the same time. Simultaneous drive failures certainly could happen but it would be rare compared to a single drive failure. I believe the two issues can be addressed as separate issues. I have used a backup harddrive three times in the last month. Last week my Win98 install failed after some serious experimentation with a multimonitor setup. I booted to another drive, executed Partition Magic and restored the Win98 installation all in about thirty minutes. I tried writing a Drive Image to my CDR. So far no success. I have been able to make a couple of audio CD's but writing a 600+ MB file to CDR has resulted in three coasters. Not my idea of reliability. I will try the Adaptec software when I feel like throwing more $ at CDR. For now I am sticking with harddrives for backup. How many home users do a complete backup before a software install? I never did that before I had two harddrives. It is suggested all the time but rarely done. Most users do not have the capability of doing a complete backup. Most computers are sold without a backup capability. For me the question is between two 14 GB drives, two 8.4 GB drives or one of each. Zeuspaul

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