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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, James Early <jwearly1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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<gingery_machines%40yahoogroups.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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