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Shades · 12-21-2014, 08:20 PM

I usually just manually backup files that I need. I save them to a 1.5tb drive. Automated backups make me worry that somewhere along the way the program will corrupt files... Judging by this thread, I am right to worry.

The thing is, the chance of any two drives failing at exactly the same time is almost impossible.

I do advise people to get a program called Crystal Disk Info, it's free. It tells you the health of your HDDs. Granted an HDD will not always report an upcoming failure, but a lot of the time it will show errors happening, like bad sectors.

12-21-2014, 08:20 PM	#12
Shades Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 1246392 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Nothing Phone (2a) + @Voice, Kobo Libra H2O	I usually just manually backup files that I need. I save them to a 1.5tb drive. Automated backups make me worry that somewhere along the way the program will corrupt files... Judging by this thread, I am right to worry. The thing is, the chance of any two drives failing at exactly the same time is almost impossible. I do advise people to get a program called Crystal Disk Info, it's free. It tells you the health of your HDDs. Granted an HDD will not always report an upcoming failure, but a lot of the time it will show errors happening, like bad sectors. Last edited by Shades; 12-21-2014 at 08:23 PM.