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[Mr Skrunts]

I noticed Tesco have a WD 1Gb external for under £70, which I thought was quite good for a non mail order place.


I really cannot stress this highly enough, rarely used HDDs make a piss poor backup regime.  I've fallen foul of that over the weekend.  Fortunately, I can confirm that LTO tapes are more reliable, though obviously out of reach for many.

I have learnt the hard way with most types of back up.  I have found the best and probably the laziest way for me is the Hard drive, with regular backups to annother machine.  My pictices tend to get copied to evey machine that gets booted up (and there are quite a few  )  Plus I have a dediacted PC just for video clips and pictures.

Am wanting a stand alone PC now where I can sycronise a folder to backup/duplicate/syscronise each of the "My Documents" folders on each machine.  Any ides for software to deal with that would be appreciated.  TIA.   

I know its extreme, but I had 3 disks fail over the weekend.    Ouch, was that on the OOF server?


Take a look at Home Server, which automatically backs up your PCs. Not ever used it myself, so don't know full ins and outs      Cheers Jamie, will look into it.                         

[Martin_1962]

I have had 3 Maxtors fail on me, one had some ISOs on them, lost a few - if I want them it wil be tapes from loft and recapture.

Other two were work and the last one I actually managed the get the VO repository off intact before total failure.

[Mr Skrunts]

I have had 3 Maxtors fail on me, one had some ISOs on them, lost a few - if I want them it wil be tapes from loft and recapture.

Other two were work and the last one I actually managed the get the VO repository off intact before total failure.

Used to swear by maxtor, but had a bad run on them about 4 years ago, wont touch them with a berge pole now.

Never had an issue with Hitachi drives, allways found them good value for money.

[TheBoy]

I have had 3 Maxtors fail on me, one had some ISOs on them, lost a few - if I want them it wil be tapes from loft and recapture.

Other two were work and the last one I actually managed the get the VO repository off intact before total failure.

Used to swear by maxtor, but had a bad run on them about 4 years ago, wont touch them with a berge pole now.

Never had an issue with Hitachi drives, allways found them good value for money.

All much of a muchness to be honest.  Had a hot-plug Hitachi start smoking once

[CaptainZok]

I have had 3 Maxtors fail on me, one had some ISOs on them, lost a few - if I want them it wil be tapes from loft and recapture.

Other two were work and the last one I actually managed the get the VO repository off intact before total failure.

Used to swear by maxtor, but had a bad run on them about 4 years ago, wont touch them with a berge pole now.

Never had an issue with Hitachi drives, allways found them good value for money.

All much of a muchness to be honest.  Had a hot-plug Hitachi start smoking once

Before or after you "educated" it with Sammie?

[TheBoy]

I have had 3 Maxtors fail on me, one had some ISOs on them, lost a few - if I want them it wil be tapes from loft and recapture.

Other two were work and the last one I actually managed the get the VO repository off intact before total failure.

Used to swear by maxtor, but had a bad run on them about 4 years ago, wont touch them with a berge pole now.

Never had an issue with Hitachi drives, allways found them good value for money.

All much of a muchness to be honest.  Had a hot-plug Hitachi start smoking once

Before or after you "educated" it with Sammie?

Or during

[KillerWatt]

Used to swear by maxtor, but had a bad run on them about 4 years ago, wont touch them with a berge pole now.

Every drive manufacturer has had a "flawed" production run at some point in time.