I'm back!

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

Me too. But, I recently discovered it died some time ago and there's no way to access the backup files. Need a cloud backup solution soon before my main hard drive fails and I lose everything.

That's why I've decided not to take anyone up on a super deal for a 2 or 4 Tb drive. As someone said there are two kinds of hard drives, those that have failed and those that will fail. The bigger the hard drive the more you lose when it craps out! We need to go back to the practice 30 years ago in the early days of PC with 5" floppy disks, grandfather, father, son. Three backup media and rotate them each time you make a backup. Do I do it? No. Someday I'll be sorry too, probably! :banghead:

 

[Bob Denman]

Mine was a 2 TB; was... :banghead:

 

[wyliec]

That's why I've decided not to take anyone up on a super deal for a 2 or 4 Tb drive. As someone said there are two kinds of hard drives, those that have failed and those that will fail. The bigger the hard drive the more you lose when it craps out! We need to go back to the practice 30 years ago in the early days of PC with 5" floppy disks, grandfather, father, son. Three backup media and rotate them each time you make a backup. Do I do it? No. Someday I'll be sorry too, probably! :banghead:

What do you think the chances of your computer's hard drive, and an external hard drive crapping out at the same time? I'd say it was pretty slim.

 

[Hypurone]

That's why I've decided not to take anyone up on a super deal for a 2 or 4 Tb drive. As someone said there are two kinds of hard drives, those that have failed and those that will fail. The bigger the hard drive the more you lose when it craps out! We need to go back to the practice 30 years ago in the early days of PC with 5" floppy disks, grandfather, father, son. Three backup media and rotate them each time you make a backup. Do I do it? No. Someday I'll be sorry too, probably! :banghead:

SSD is the way to go if that is what worries you. Even if you manage to reach the max number of writes per sector, it still remains viable as a read only device. Can't remember the last time I saw one fail due to a bad controller. ....

 

[DGoebel]

You guys bust me up. I remember external hard drives for backing up, and folks who couldn't recover their data from them....

One Word Carbonite, never lost any files since, no pictures, no favorites, no bookmarks, no docs lost ever, Its all there waiting for you when you trust Carbonite to always backup your data without ever forgetting.

It's kinda like guys quibbling over saving $20 on their $15,000 - $30,000 Spyders

 

[Bob Denman]

Carbonite? Can you tell us all a little bit more about this service? It sounds... interesting! :thumbup:

 

[wyliec]

Bob D. must be going thru a learning curve on his new computer. He's still not posting much.

I've thought about Carbonite in the past. I just don't like the idea of a third party on my computer.

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: I liked Windows 7 Pro much better... nojoke