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Posted by John on 07/15/06 20:58
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:01:04 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs
<roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:31:41 +0100, John <cow@chicken.com> Gave us:
>
>>If I was to buy one hard drive to store all my multimedia files on
>>(most of which are news, sports and documentaries particularly
>>wildlife, so not much porn except for Monkeys or Tigers mating!) I
>>would also have to buy a second HD that the first would be backed up
>>to.
>
> If you have that much of a problem with hard drives, you shouldn't
>use a computer at all.
>
> They are absolutely reliable, and need not be backed up at all.
So far I've personally had more of a problem with Hard Drives than
media like CD-R or DVD-R.
In my lifetime so far I have owned four hard drives, and one of them I
got stung pretty badly with when the drive heads crashed and I lost
about 33gb of data. I have still kept hold of the drive in case one
day the price of data recovery comes down to reasonable levels, then
there is a small chance I might be able to recover some of the data
from the drive.
That's why though I have always been cautious since with data and have
always made backups to other drives and media. I have always been more
wary of Hard Drives though because of percentages alone I have
suffered more. For me personally reliability with Hard Drives is 75%
with one in four of the drives I have had crashing.
If I also include the computer systems I use at work the figure is a
little worse. One in three of the hard drives I've had in different
systems at work have crashed on me. In total that is 2 out of 7 hard
drive failures. And that's 71% reliability overall that I've
personally experienced with hard drives.
I think as far as internal hard drives are concerned you definitely
need to have other drives to back up to. Perhaps hard drives are more
reliable as an external drive that you only connect once in a while
when you want to make a backup, and for the most part sit on a shelf,
powered down in a protective enclosure.
Maybe once I have had 100 hard drives I would be able to get a better
picture of reliability compared with CD-R and DVD-R. So far though for
me personally CD-R and DVD-R have been more reliable.
I will probably still get an external hard drive to use as a backup
device simply because of the space that so many DVD-Rs would take up,
and also for the convenience and speed factor. I am still very
cautious of hard drives though. Once stung twice shy.
John
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