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Posted by Ken Maltby on 07/16/06 03:13
"John" <cow@chicken.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
That's a real tail of woe there, are you sure there isn't
something you are doing that contributes to all these
failures?
> 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.
>
And this would be different than your 70 DVDs sitting on a
shelf, in a protective enclosure; how?
> 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.
>
Hmm... let me guess on where the most failures would be;
in the 100 Hard drives or the 7000 DVD-R. I know where
my money would go.
> 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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