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To: Gottfried who wrote (73506)	1/1/2011 8:47:34 AM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Respond to of 110654

I'm doing something similar. Drives are dirt cheap now. Geeks or Newegg, 20-30 bucks. I do weekly images to a folder on an external and then every once in a while I'll clone C to another internal or use one of the images, and boot from it to check it out. I keep the extra internal disconnected, probably wouldn't matter if I left it connected or not long term. I use the Acronis from Seagate. (Don't mix versions, I've had issues, Seagate recently changed from 10 to 11) One thing I haven't tried is RAID 1, that would be good I think. My motherboard says it supports it... I have friends who use Clonezilla and one who uses "dd" after booting to Linux. Anything seems to work as long as you practice! Now if I can only figure out this SSD offset nonsense, I wouldn't have a $100 SSD sitting on the desk looking at me...