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Azayzel · 04-08-2007, 07:14 PM

Lol, it's funny to see this topic crop up (though it is very much a concern on mine), hopefully someone didn't lose something recently.

I've have more than my fair share of HDD's go bad, so I trust them with a grain of salt, and I trust floppies with even less. I guess the stuff that I really want to keep I throw onto DVD-R's, just wish D/L DVD's would drop a bit more in price so I can minimize the amount of space they take up.

I used to trust external drives quite readily, but again, I think I had 2-3 go out in the past few years, so I've lst a bit of faith in them. Where I used to work, they had a 1TB RAID go schizo and dump a ton of user info/research; I think they paid a recovery expert ~$50k to recover the RAID, they were only able to recover about half of it and we received most of that on DVD's. yikes!

Bottom Line: If you really, really don't want to lose your data, always have some type of backup.

04-08-2007, 07:14 PM	#11
Azayzel Cache Ninja! Posts: 643 Karma: 1002300 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tokyo, Japan Device: PRS-500, HTC Shift, iPod Touch, iPaq 4150, TC1100, Panasonic WordsGear	Lol, it's funny to see this topic crop up (though it is very much a concern on mine), hopefully someone didn't lose something recently. I've have more than my fair share of HDD's go bad, so I trust them with a grain of salt, and I trust floppies with even less. I guess the stuff that I really want to keep I throw onto DVD-R's, just wish D/L DVD's would drop a bit more in price so I can minimize the amount of space they take up. I used to trust external drives quite readily, but again, I think I had 2-3 go out in the past few years, so I've lst a bit of faith in them. Where I used to work, they had a 1TB RAID go schizo and dump a ton of user info/research; I think they paid a recovery expert ~$50k to recover the RAID, they were only able to recover about half of it and we received most of that on DVD's. yikes! Bottom Line: If you really, really don't want to lose your data, always have some type of backup.