Thread: Seagate 80Mb Portable HDD

Originally Posted by ladas

Depends on how much YOU value YOUR data.

I have a huge amount, that to me is of extremely high value, so to me

It's a very good investment.

Each to their own

Nope.. Burning it to archive quality DVD or CDs is a good investment in your data's future...

relying on platen based magnetic media for high value data is not.

Wait till your data requirement exceeds the 2Tb I consume... Backups are a nightmare...

BluRay may help relieve it a bit here

Originally Posted by tombraider

Nope.. Burning it to archive quality DVD or CDs is a good investment in your data's future...

I have 2o year old 5-1/4" floppies that are still readable.

I have mag tapes of similar vintage that are still readable.

I have quality CD-Rs that are 5 years old and are no longer readable - which is a real pain as I have a lot of documents, busness records, tax info, etc., backed up on them.

I dunno what the tax office would say - I archived my data and BAS stuff and now I can no longer access it.

Ron

If your laptop hdd is only 40gig then why not buy a 2.5in caddy for about $20 and a big hdd for whatever cost and put the big hdd in your laptop and the old 40gig in your caddy?

I bought a caddy without a hdd to supplement my last laptop but then upgraded my laptop and the new laptop came with a 100gig hdd. I've never used the caddy yet (never bought a hdd for it). So long as I backup my photos reasonably regularly I do not run out of space.

I have also backed up photos onto CD and DVD and found some of the CDs to not last as well as I'd like. I'd be interested to know what brand/type of CD or DVD I should be buying for archive stuff.

I'm running a blueray160gig usb hard drive as backup cost $122.00 from Umart.

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Originally Posted by tombraider

Nope.. Burning it to archive quality DVD or CDs is a good investment in your data's future...

relying on platen based magnetic media for high value data is not.

Wait till your data requirement exceeds the 2Tb I consume... Backups are a nightmare...

BluRay may help relieve it a bit here

Dunno about that, I have been running HDD backups, with swapable drives for the past 10 years

Never lost anything yet.

It works for me. I am not up to terra byte volume - but as I say it works for me - and has done for the past 10 years.


Before that we used tapes, quite a few of those **** themselves

those usb drives are good, especially if you can get the ones that have a double plug on em that draws the drive power from either the usb port or an external power pack...

FFS Always do the remove plung and play device thing on windows before you unplug them.. IF i had $20 for everytime one of the untech guys at work killed a usb mem stick or HD and bought it to me to "see if you can fix it or get my data back" Id have another deefer.. actually thats not true, it'd be a S1 next time round.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I have 2o year old 5-1/4" floppies that are still readable.

Why would you still have a machine with a 5-1/4 floppy drive in it ??

Originally Posted by p38arover

I dunno what the tax office would say - I archived my data and BAS stuff and now I can no longer access it.

Ron

My guess would be - "Not our problem"



Martyn

Originally Posted by Bushie

Why would you still have a machine with a 5-1/4 floppy drive in it ??

Some of my data still hasn't been transferred to CD or DVD 'cos I don't trust the media.

My desktop has a SCSI 1/2" tape drive fitted - it replaced my external Tallgrass tape drive.

Ron