Computer geeks! Need your advice. - Page 2

Neens · 01-21-2011, 09:00 PM

I would go with external hard drives like the others have said. Easyer to use and very portable. Also in your price range you can get around 3TB worth of storage. Some of them even come with free net backup. I love the Western Digital line, been using them since I started building systems about 15 years ago. I have never had one fail to last at least 7 years with 12 being the longest running HD.

hammondc · 01-21-2011, 09:48 PM

I use carbon copy and copy a direct image of my HDD every sunday morning at like 3am. Then a copy of that goes to a another HDD

tenbaseg · 01-22-2011, 09:57 AM

My wife has 120gb+ of pictures in her library. I have automated backups that run nightly. I swap out between two 1TB external drives. Worst case scenario is that I only lose something incremental.

My biggest concern is that nothing is off-site. What I need to do is to bring it over my MIL's to just have them separated.

JaKaacH · 01-22-2011, 11:48 AM

Here is a good deal on a USB powered 1TB TOSHIBA USB 3.0

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-22149191-L0E

mosesbotbol · 01-22-2011, 03:20 PM

You could buy a drive that will fit everything once a year and move it off site.

Sauer Grapes · 01-23-2011, 08:30 PM

I use a RAID NAS, but even then you need to back the RAID up with an external you can store at another location so you have a backup in case of fire or theft. The RAID only protects again a hard drive crash, as there is an exact copy on the other drive and you can just replace the crashed drive and it automatically duplicated the good drive onto the new one again.

01-21-2011, 09:00 PM	#1
Neens Adjusting to the Life Join Date: Dec 2010 First Name: Anthony Location: Orange, CT Posts: 349 Trading: (21)	Re: Computer geeks! Need your advice. I would go with external hard drives like the others have said. Easyer to use and very portable. Also in your price range you can get around 3TB worth of storage. Some of them even come with free net backup. I love the Western Digital line, been using them since I started building systems about 15 years ago. I have never had one fail to last at least 7 years with 12 being the longest running HD.

01-21-2011, 09:48 PM	#2
hammondc Moar Padrons! Join Date: Aug 2010 First Name: Chip Location: Senoia, GA Posts: 2,628 Trading: (17)	Re: Computer geeks! Need your advice. I use carbon copy and copy a direct image of my HDD every sunday morning at like 3am. Then a copy of that goes to a another HDD

01-22-2011, 09:57 AM	#3
tenbaseg Saying no to daily deals! Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Garrett Location: Masshole Nation Posts: 1,094 Trading: (40)	Re: Computer geeks! Need your advice. My wife has 120gb+ of pictures in her library. I have automated backups that run nightly. I swap out between two 1TB external drives. Worst case scenario is that I only lose something incremental. My biggest concern is that nothing is off-site. What I need to do is to bring it over my MIL's to just have them separated.

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01-23-2011, 08:30 PM	#6
Sauer Grapes Snatchin' yo people up Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2,235 Trading: (44)	Re: Computer geeks! Need your advice. I use a RAID NAS, but even then you need to back the RAID up with an external you can store at another location so you have a backup in case of fire or theft. The RAID only protects again a hard drive crash, as there is an exact copy on the other drive and you can just replace the crashed drive and it automatically duplicated the good drive onto the new one again.