OT Both my HDD's going bad at same time.

[John Hubbard]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 14:50:51 Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>   
>> Steven Vollom wrote:
>>     
>>>> But this unfortunately does not alter the fact that your harddisk will
>>>> die and all your data will be lost if you will not have a recent backup.
>>>>         
>>> It is the only gambling I do, except for a game.
>>> Steven
>>>       
>> ok, but what does this mean?
>>
>> Logically your data has no value, since you are gambling with it.
>>
>> Through VERY BAD experiences, I came to the conclusion that my data has
>> value, at least for me. Therefore I try to treat it accordingly.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Eberhard
>>     
> If I buy a new drive for this machine, when the new one is just around the 
> corner, I spend money I can not afford to spend.  If I win my bet, and the new 
> motherboard arrives in time, I lose nothing and am done with this lemon.
>
> If I purchase a new drive that holds 280gb of data, it costs $50 and is an ATA 
> drive.  The new computer is SATA.  There lies the reason for my gamble.
>
> Steven
>
>   
Think about getting an external USB drive. You can back up your data. If 
you hard drive dies you have the data and could probably install your os 
and run off of the usb drive in a pinch. If your hard drive doesn't die, 
you have a hard drive to back up your new computer. Or you can get the 
ata drive and then get an external enclosure that supports usb and use 
it with your new machine for backup purposes.

-- 
-john

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