[Spridgets] OT - External hard drives

[Jim Johnson]

One caution...  Hard Drives fail.  Ask yourself what happens to your back-up
if your back-up hard drive fails? Invariably your back-up image will contain
stuff you no longer want stored on your machine and it will be lost.
Back-up on DVD is the safest way even though it may be a bit more time
consuming initially. If your back-up is incremental it will go quickly after
the first time.

A lot depends upon how much data you are working with.  There are Terabyte
drives available...   ;-)

Cheers!!
Jim

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM, <tinydog at snet.net> wrote:

> tinydog asked:
>
> I am interested in an external hard drive to store data and use as a backup
> device.
>
> What are listers experiences with external hard drives?
>
> Any opinions would be appreciated.
>
> I was considering this one until I read the 2 user reviews at the bottom.
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2333087,00.asp