More on Hard Drives
Jul. 21st, 2007 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teslaHmm. Thank you for the comments on my hard drive post. Rather than making the same reply to each of them, I thought I would put it here:
I do currently use an external HD for data backup. Of course I'm not running my apps from there - doing so would be painfully slow.
My rule of thumb: I will never ever leave any file un-backed up. This means that it MUST be stored in at least two physically distinct locations (preferably more) at all times. No exceptions. Oh, and even though I ripped the vast majority of my music from CD, the CDs don't count as backups, since it would take way too long to recover from them.
So at this point I either need to copy my 40GB of music to a new external source, which would cost me at least $60 and put an additional thing on my desk/floor, OR I need to get myself a bigger internal HD. I'm thinking of going the latter route because it seems simpler: have one complete set of files on the internal drive, a second complete set on the external.
I do take very seriously![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarendipatree's caveat to make sure that my motherboard can cope with a larger HD, and am researching that now.
Am I missing something obvious here?
I do currently use an external HD for data backup. Of course I'm not running my apps from there - doing so would be painfully slow.
My rule of thumb: I will never ever leave any file un-backed up. This means that it MUST be stored in at least two physically distinct locations (preferably more) at all times. No exceptions. Oh, and even though I ripped the vast majority of my music from CD, the CDs don't count as backups, since it would take way too long to recover from them.
So at this point I either need to copy my 40GB of music to a new external source, which would cost me at least $60 and put an additional thing on my desk/floor, OR I need to get myself a bigger internal HD. I'm thinking of going the latter route because it seems simpler: have one complete set of files on the internal drive, a second complete set on the external.
I do take very seriously
sarendipatree's caveat to make sure that my motherboard can cope with a larger HD, and am researching that now.Am I missing something obvious here?
