Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:18:48 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "K Anderson" <freebsduser@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stored hard drive failure? Message-ID: <7w4q7wx7h3.q7w@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <003101c5c984$362cf830$0c64a8c0@opteron> (K. Anderson's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:10:08 -0700") References: <000301c5c97c$5b735560$0c64a8c0@opteron> <2926BCC8-0AF2-483E-BDB1-CF2E30EC4558@shire.net> <001f01c5c980$a3030c50$0c64a8c0@opteron> <17219.34877.306826.523289@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca> <003101c5c984$362cf830$0c64a8c0@opteron>
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If you're really serious (to borrow a phrase), you'll do backup to several different media and maybe different formats. With RAID or backup to an always-powered second HDD, you can loose all of your disks if the case power supply or MB fails in certain ways. (I know someone who lost a disk when the MB failed.) Or if someone steals your computer or in a fire. With removable HDD, you risk physical damage either from lack of use or shock. FYI, I kept a 45 GB IBM and a 80 GB Seagate drive in a outside storage shed which got hot, cold, and damp for 10 months and they work fine. I guess I've been lucky because I've had only one failure from about 15 lightly-used disks and have occasionally reused 5- to 10-year-old disks for short durations after years on the shelf.
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