Watch the Sunday paper ads for Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, etc. and
you can put together a large backup device for very little money. I
recently bought two ATA to USB 2.0 external drive cases at CompUSA for
$30 each. They're fairly well made and have small cooling fans. At the
same time I managed to buy a Western Digital 160 GB drive for $40 after
rebates. Today I bought a Seagate 160 GB drive at Best Buy for $50
after rebates. Now I have two 160GB external drives for backup.
Note that these drives are ATA/EIDE drives which I think are about to be
displaced by newer technology called Serial ATA (SATA). I bought two of
the ATA to USB cases. If one of them fails 5 years from now I won't
likely be able to buy another. However, since I have two of them I'll
use the other case to copy the data from both drives off to whatever
technology is then current. The drives themselves should have a very
long life since they only need to be powered on when actually working.
Chuck Norcutt
Walt Wayman wrote:
> My sincerest condolences, Bill. And thanks for the warning. I've got
> several hundred images on my HD that have neither been backed up or moved to
> CD. Of course, they are nearly all scans of slides I could put my hands on
> without too much trouble and rescan. But now that I've gone over to the dark
> side, your tale of woe should provide the impetus necessary for me to develop
> better habits, at least regarding my E-1 stuff.
>
> My wife crashed her computer last year by installing a Windoze update
> package. We hauled it in to the neighbohood geek store and they were able to
> resurrect everything, though for the handsome sum of $375. Talk about
> something you love to hate, a computer has to be number one. If our SUVs
> were as undependable and unpredictable as our computers, there'd be horses
> grazing in the back yard. :-)
>
> Walt
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