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>>>> I would backup by data - but what exactly do you back 200GB up onto?
>>>> Besides, most of it isn't very valuable data.
>>> Most of what I backup is photos. The rest is coding projects, lots of POV, odd
>>> documents... As for where to - external HD, of course.
>> Uhuh. And this second HD is less likely to fail... why, exactly?
>
> Well, I guess some drives fail arbitrarily, but I would think a drive that gets
> hammered constantly is more likely to fail than one that just gets one long
> write sequence every week.
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> And, what Scott said.
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> (okay, so maybe 'paranoiacally frequently' was innaccurate, especially compared
> with RAID...:)!)
I was under the impression that power cycles stress a HD more than
regular use... But hey, having duplicate copies has gotta be better than
not having them I guess.
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