I tried a similar system some years ago. It cost the company $3500 to recover the bosses critical email and excel data from the failed drive. He now agrees with me that it is a whole lot cheaper to buy a new drive every 36 months for $100 than to pay the hard drive recovery people their fees. Point is it is a rare drive that fails in under 40 months of use. It is also an even more rare dive that lasts more than 48 months in service. So my current policy is to replace all service drives either working or backup every 36 months and super critical data is backed to a flash drive on a monthly basis.
I was very lucky that I had made my objections clear to the boss on both of his last 2 objections to my designed data recovery program. Now I just have to hope he remembers the pain he suffered on his last 2 system drive crashes before the next drive replacement date.
JWE
Long Beach, CA
Nov 27, 2010 03:58:14 AM, gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com wrote:
I have three computers and a laptop on my home network. Desktops for
myself and my wife, and another beside the TV as a home theater (great
for watching downloaded stuff!)
I backup to other computers using SyncToy 2.1. It will match 2 folders,
including any changes.
Just open SyncToy and choose the folder pair you want to sync and press
the run button. Almost instant backups.
The good thing here is I can use all the old hard drives I have
accumulated with every computer upgrade.
On 11/26/2010 8:38 PM, James Early wrote:
>
> I have been getting 2TB drives for about $95 and Interface mounts for
> about $35. Eveything is backed on a regular basis. It is much easier
> and cheaper than trying to recove data from a failed drive.
>
> JWE
> Long Beach, CA
>
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