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Posted by Ken Moiarty on 09/29/19 11:42
Okay, "erase" wasn't the definitive term. I should have written, "hard
drives are vulnerable to corruption by magnets". Now I do not know this
from personal experience; only from what I've read (ostensibly by an
authority on the subject, if I recall).
> an external hard drive coupled with a robust drive imaging program such as
> Acronis True Image is an > excellent option
Acronis True Image, eh. A better choice in your opinion than, say, Norton
Ghost, I take it?
> you are truly unlikely to carry your hard drive near a field strong enough
> to erase it.
Oh I believe you! But you see, when it comes to any rare and unexpected
catastrophe (you know, the ones we didn't plan for) it's very often the most
'unlikely' and unforeseen of events which precipitate it. <g>
Ken
I like to drive fast sometimes, yet at all times with care.
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"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote in message
news:mn.7b7b7d63c27904c2.1980@nobody.invalid...
> On 3/15/2006, Ken Moiarty managed to type:
> <SNIP>
>
>> Hard drives are vulnerable to erasure by magnets. They are therefore not
>> an ideally secure back up medium.
>
> My advice: don't take the hard drive with you when you go in for that MRI
> or on your visit to a cyclotron.
>
> Seriously: an external hard drive coupled with a robust drive imaging
> program such as Acronis True Image is an excellent option. Furthermore,
> you are truly unlikely to carry your hard drive near a field strong enough
> to erase it.
>
> Gino
>
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