In Reply to: 80 gig is not nearly enough posted by vettracer on March 20, 2007 at 17:43:42:
A hard drive contains moving parts, manufactured to extremely close tolerances.There's no guarantee that a hard drive, stored in a drawer, will even spin up after a few years.
If you truly value the data, I would encourage you to seek other forms of backup.
Trust me on this. You don't really want to experience that sinking feeling when you switch on an old drive, and hear a grinding noise followed by loud clicking sounds.
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Follow Ups
- Warning: hard drives may not be reliable as a backup mechanism - Christine Tham 19:34:28 03/20/07 (7)
- Re: Warning: hard drives may not be reliable as a backup mechanism - morricab 02:28:18 04/04/07 (0)
- You should warn the tens of thousands of companies - J.Mac 16:25:27 03/22/07 (3)
- I did - Christine Tham 00:29:30 03/23/07 (2)
- They didn't listen - J.Mac 04:24:44 03/23/07 (1)
- It's easy to say "industry trend" or make up statistics - Christine Tham 15:13:05 03/23/07 (0)
- Okay, ... - vettracer 08:22:53 03/21/07 (0)
- Re: Are you thinking tape or optical media? - navman 07:11:19 03/21/07 (0)