External harddisk!!!!!!!!!!
pushkar
Journeyman
If this is so that one can be a mirrored backup of the other, do NOT buy both drives at the same time and from the same place. Make sure both drives are from different batches of manufacturing. I have heard at least 5 incidents where someone bought two identical drives; after some time, one hard drive failed, and after just few days, the other drive failed as well (the people didn't think that the other drive would fail so soon, so they didn't take any extra backup). Chances of both drives failing around the same time are higher if they are exact same drives from the same batch.buy any brand, but buy two of them
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Are you planning on purchasing the hard drives with a dedicated power adapter??
is it worth it considering that electricity in India is plagued with problems?
why do you not consider the Seagate FreeAgent GO 1TB? also Seagate gives you a 5 years warranty on its products compared to the 3 years period provided by Western Digital.
is it worth it considering that electricity in India is plagued with problems?
why do you not consider the Seagate FreeAgent GO 1TB? also Seagate gives you a 5 years warranty on its products compared to the 3 years period provided by Western Digital.
Cool Buddy
Wise Old Owl
buy any brand, but buy two of them
Rhitwick meant buy any one from seagate or WD, do not buy any other brand. He did not mean buy 2 HDDs
pushkar
Journeyman
No he did not. It seems pretty obvious from his post that he means buying 2 drives. I don't know how you are getting that meaning from his post.
Cool Buddy
Wise Old Owl
When one has a backup, it already creates 2 copies, one original & one backup. So why should one buy 2 backup drives. That's why I mis-interpreted your post
Cool Buddy
Wise Old Owl
lol, talking of serious data backup. One can think that seriously only if the data is critical. So i missed the point. For me, the photographs taken with my digicam is the only critically important data that I keep multiple copies of
rhitwick
Democracy is a myth
Cool Buddy
Wise Old Owl
I don't know how many years it would have taken me to get over the fact that I lost all my photos if something like that were to happen to me. best is to backup your most critical data to some website like adrive.
But that also gave me a slip sometime back. I used to use g.ho.st to backup some data. I had backed up around 300-400 MB (most favourite pics). I used it coz it was the only service giving me ftp access. then one day it announced it would no longer be free and gave a week's time to get any data that might be lying there. I just wanted to see what all I had backed up coz everything was there on my HDD. but the site never opened in that one week and is no longer accessible now.
But that also gave me a slip sometime back. I used to use g.ho.st to backup some data. I had backed up around 300-400 MB (most favourite pics). I used it coz it was the only service giving me ftp access. then one day it announced it would no longer be free and gave a week's time to get any data that might be lying there. I just wanted to see what all I had backed up coz everything was there on my HDD. but the site never opened in that one week and is no longer accessible now.
