Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> It seems HDDs like to fail after about 2yrs of 12+hr a day use. Boooo!
> >> Amoung all the computers I've been called on to fix, I can once again
> >> count the number of drive failures on one hand. (Laptops do seem to fail
> >> somewhat more often.)
> >
> > I'm similar; I've never had a HD fail. Run out of space, yes, even stolen, but
> > no HD I've ever used has ever gone pop. I guess I'm just not a particularly
> > 'high-impact' user...
> >
> > I back up, of course, paranoiacally frequently. But, touch wood, I've never
> > needed to restore a backup yet.
> >
> > (Of course, now I've said that, every drive in my various machines will expire
> > catastrophically over the next 24 hours)
>
> Oh, I've had drives fail. Just not very often.
>
> 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.

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