External Hard Drives

[Pete27]

At the moment i have everything backed up on an external hard drive since i can fill god knows how many cds in no time at all.... plus i lose them

my question is, how often do external hard drives pack up? and can stuff be recovered from them if they do? need to know cuz if not then i will have to back up on a second one... thanks

[Rednosty]

At the moment i have everything backed up on an external hard drive since i can fill god knows how many cds in no time at all.... plus i lose them

my question is, how often do external hard drives pack up? and can stuff be recovered from them if they do? need to know cuz if not then i will have to back up on a second one... thanks

First question.......Erm How longs a piece of string?

Second question...YES at a cost! Used to work for a firm that recovered disk data.Phewee the amount of Porn found was Incredible!

[Pete27]

First question.......Erm How longs a piece of string?

Second question...YES at a cost! Used to work for a firm that recovered disk data.Phewee the amount of Porn found was Incredible!

Didnt your mommy ever teach you not to answer a question with a question?

I was hoping to judge from people experiences on here how often they tend to pack up so i could decide if it was worth getting another

[damian_steele]

Drive death time is dependant on many factors which include (but are not limited to) the amount of data access, internal and external temperature, level of physical movement - or did you drop it? syndrome - original manufacturer, model of drive, whether your electricity supply is nice and even or whether it spikes when your fridge kicks in, the quality of the product you're using and so on.

In other words, your drive could die within a year or it could last for a couple of decades.

So if your data is valuable, make multiple backups across different medias and store them in different physical locations.

[Pete27]

Drive death time is dependant on many factors which include (but are not limited to) the amount of data access, internal and external temperature, level of physical movement - or did you drop it? syndrome - original manufacturer, model of drive, whether your electricity supply is nice and even or whether it spikes when your fridge kicks in, the quality of the product you're using and so on.

In other words, your drive could die within a year or it could last for a couple of decades.

So if your data is valuable, make multiple backups across different medias and store them in different physical locations.

Well i access it pretty much all the time, its very hot, left on constantly and our lights flicker when we use the shower and kettle so i think i'll get another one

Thanks Damian

[Rednosty]

Didnt your mommy ever teach you not to answer a question with a question?

I was hoping to judge from people experiences on here how often they tend to pack up so i could decide if it was worth getting another

Only just brought one so when you know let me know!

[Rednosty]

Drive death time is dependant on many factors which include (but are not limited to) the amount of data access, internal and external temperature, level of physical movement - or did you drop it? syndrome - original manufacturer, model of drive, whether your electricity supply is nice and even or whether it spikes when your fridge kicks in, the quality of the product you're using and so on.

In other words, your drive could die within a year or it could last for a couple of decades.

So if your data is valuable, make multiple backups across different medias and store them in different physical locations.

Is this not what I said!

[Pete27]

Is this not what I said!

yeah but he said it better and i like him more lol

[shabbird]

have been maxtor external hard 320 GB hard disk for about 9 months now and no problems..

Depends on the size of backup you want.. as you could buy the cheap 8.5 GB dvd +R disk as a secondary backup in case anything goes wrong.. costs about 50p each.. so you are safe.

[Rednosty]

yeah but he said it better and i like him more lol

If I was Merlin-man I would have called you a muppet by now! But I'm Not! SO I'll call you Pete27 my new bestist mate.