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Originally Posted by rhadin
The only problem with external hard drives is that they do fail and you are no better off once they fail than if they didn't exist.
A better choice for an external drive system is a NAS box. NAS boxes contain mirrored hard drives to protect in case of hard drive failure. Essentially, it means that there are an equal number of hard drives (2, 4, etc.) that are paired with one drive being a mirror image (or backup) of the primary drive of the pair.
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I have a NAS box, too (four drives in a RAID 5 array), but what do you do to back
that up in the case of, say, fire or theft? That's what I use my external USB disks for, which are so easily kept off-site. With hundreds of GB of files, such as I have, it's unfortunately impractical to make backups over the internet (at least it is with my internet speeds).