Posted by StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt on 12/29/07 22:19

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:07:20 -0500, Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> wrote:

>Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:
>> [...]
>> For $60 you can buy a 320 GB hard drive. Using a lossless encoding
>> algorithm like FLAC, you can get well over 1000 CDs on it. Buy two,
>> using one as a backup. Then when one crashes, buy a new drive. Rinse,
>> lather, repeat.
>
>And if you're really paranoid, buy a third USB (external) drive and
>store it off-site, so that a catastrophic event like fire will not
>wipe you out.

Exactly.

Now, go tell the Nappy Headed Ho Fee (Houghi) idiot in the SuSE group
that.

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