In Reply to: Re: We agree... posted by tullman on November 12, 2006 at 09:21:33:
They're reliable enough to keep all of your financial, tax, personal and medical data. Every business, you deal with, including the one you work for, every doctor and every governmental agency has the majority of its data sorted on a computer. These data are far more important than music collections,even for us. All of it is backed up daily and is put on mirrored drives. We have known that hard drives fail for a long time and every business has dealt with that fact since the first IBM mainframes. It is a solved problem and has been for a long time.Whether you feel you have enough expertise to trust your own software collection to a hard drive is a different story, but with cheap external hard drives, backing up these days is pretty easy and you can purchase an off the shelf computer with mirrored drives.
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- They're reliable enough to keep all of your financial data. - Pacman 17:04:25 11/12/06 (7)
- Re: They're reliable enough to keep all of your financial data. - tullman 13:49:05 11/13/06 (0)
- BUT, DRM screws everything up - Ted Smith 22:37:21 11/12/06 (3)
- Amazingly, you are absolutely right - Pacman 20:54:24 11/13/06 (2)
- Is it that amazing when I'm right? :) [nt] - Ted Smith 21:02:15 11/13/06 (1)
- Ok, I deserved that one (LOL) - Pacman 06:26:34 11/14/06 (0)
- And the bottom line is... - Pacman 17:18:30 11/12/06 (1)
- No, you're not bursting my bubble - Sordidman 09:01:45 11/13/06 (0)