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Posted by Trevor on 03/20/06 21:20
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:23:14 -0800, "Ken Moiarty" <kmoiarty35@shaw.ca>
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>"Trevor" <beanerana@.invalid.net> wrote in message
>news:5sht121sb5ji4cqbjgb77qckhd17t9mnh7@4ax.com...
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>> I back up my important data to another hard drive, not external. It's
>> fast, automated, and foolproof. Acronis TrueImage is the shiznit, as
>> the kids say.
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>Do you believe the internal hard drive to be faster than an external (USB
>2.0 or a Firewire 400) would be? (I'm thinking external drive for my system
>backup as my motherboard's IDE ports are all taken [3 hard drives + the
>CD/DVD drive] and I really have no PCI expansion slots to spare for a second
>HD controller; although I suppose I could part with some precious extra
>dough to replace the multiple hard drives with one larger one, thus freeing
>up an internal port for, a less expensive and thus partial cost-offsetting,
>internal HD backup.)
If there's a significant speed difference, it doesn't matter much to
me since backups are run during the wee morning hours when I expect to
be sleeping. I use an internal drive because it's more reliable.
Around here, it's not unusual for someone to need the external drive
for some temporary task on their own PC, and of course the scheduled
backup will fail if the target drive isn't available. The risk of some
kind of catastrophic failure inside the PC case is near zero, so I'm
not concerned about that. Lastly, if you're going to be buying more
storage, it's always less expensive to buy internal storage than
external. Alternatively, if there's another PC on your local network
that has sufficient storage available, you can always back up to it
instead of or in addition to your local drive, keeping in mind the
comment above about drive availability. HTH
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