Say good bye to unreliable external hard drives

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Would you trust them with information that can be critical?

It depends on what they say in their aggreement...

If you want to secure your data you can always backup on
a dvd!
 
Would you trust them with information that can be critical?

It depends on what they say in their aggreement...

If you want to secure your data you can always backup on
a dvd!
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Or a *reliable* external hard drive.
 
The OP says:
Say good bye to unreliable external hard drives
but the boxnet site offers you only 1 GB of storage!

I don't have any hard drives that can be replace with 1 GB of web storage.
 
Martin said:
Say good bye to unreliable external hard drives

http://www.haimana.com/weblog/2006/06/access-your-boxnet-naturally-in.html

For those of you unfamiliar with BOX.NET it is an online storage place
which allows you to store files up to 1 GB online for free.
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Danger Will Robinson, Danger. Looks like a security disaster waiting to
happen. I'd sooner stay safely tucked away behind my firewall, if that
would be agreeable to you.

I've had a bit of a saga with backups myself. First off I tried mounting
a hard drive in an external casing, and attaching it to the computer via
USB. Strangely, it had a habit of "disconnecting". I since learnt that,
yes, Windows had a habit of doing that. I tinkered with possibilities of
trying to persuade it not to, but then I realised that there were too
many wires anyway, so I decided just to mount the hard drive internally.

When it came time to reinstall Operating Systems: on one ocassion I got
bored trying to get the drive letterings right, and on another occasion
I futzed up Ranish Partition Manager and managed to zap the second drive.

Compare that to the situation now, where I have a spare machine
currently FreeBSD (this week, anyway) on which I take daily backups
using robocopy (supplemented by weekly and monthly backups to CD). If
UNIX aint your bag, then you could just use Windows 98, or something.
Second-hand machines can sometimes be obtained for free from such places
as Freecycle:
http://www.freecycle.org/
(BTW, I highly encourage people to check out Freecycle - it's local to
your area, and I've given stuff away on it before)
 
Martin said:
Say good bye to unreliable external hard drives

http://www.haimana.com/weblog/2006/06/access-your-boxnet-naturally-in.html

For those of you unfamiliar with BOX.NET it is an online storage place
which allows you to store files up to 1 GB online for free.
Registering an account is extremely easy, all you need is an email.
And you don't even have to verify it! You can start using the service
immediately.
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Nice way to phish data.
You'd be better served with a thumbdrive for critical personal files.
 
Martin ©¿©¬ @REMOVETHIS.plus.com wrote :
For those of you unfamiliar with BOX.NET it is an online storage place
which allows you to store files up to 1 GB online for free.
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I will be sure to do so, since I usually connect at 31,200 bps/

BOX.NET seems much better than using my second hard drive, or my networked
second computer.

Thanks much.
 
Say good bye to unreliable external hard drives
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http://www.haimana.com/weblog/2006/06/access-your-boxnet-naturally-in.html
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Your hard drive can malfunction. So can theirs.

It is possible for things to go wrong with two drives at the same
time. I once put the wrong command in when copying my HDD to
another. I had deleted key files from both source, and destination,
before I realised what I had done. To recover I had to revert to my
backup of my backup.

Regards, John.


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Mark said:
Danger Will Robinson, Danger. Looks like a security disaster waiting to
happen. I'd sooner stay safely tucked away behind my firewall, if that
would be agreeable to you.
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looks like just another a way around emule and other file sharing
programs; the RIAA and MPAA will soon go after these poor suckers too.
 
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