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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 02:01:52 +0200 |
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Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no> wrote: |
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> > > harddrives die, that's what they do. the only question is when, |
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> > > and that's pretty much a lottery. this is why you have backups |
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> > > and RAID for important data. |
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> > Does this also apply to external hard drives? I've been thinking of |
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> > getting one just for backup. |
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> all drives die. external drives are, in my experience, at least as |
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> depressing as internal ones. |
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I'd say that external drives die even more often, because they are physically |
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moved around (various temperatures and stuff), while internal drives should be |
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motionless. |
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