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OH SHI- Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
This isn't /a/.
/a/ is at:
>>112094

(Hopefully this will convince you to back up routinely. They have software to do all the hard work, y'know.)
>> Anonymous
>>112488
Actually I did back up my stuff, it took up four dvd's :D

I was just angry because I lost $100
>> Seven Liers-In-Wait !5kL7bwCrGk
I recommend using an external USB HDD as backup. Cheap, and reliable.
>> Anonymous
>>112537
all my hdd's are used for storing that which needs to be backed up
>> Anonymous
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>> Anime Janai
If there is no convenient seller of external drives, just go to your local Sam's Club and they have a number of external drives available. The 400GB external is going for $170 which is reasonable if you consider that the external case is a decent and silent one with a kensington slot. The 250GB external goes for much less since the 400GB is a premium drive.
>> Anonymous
>>112537
Bad move. I've had too many hard drives die on me for me to consider them reliable enough for backup purposes.

Last time someone I know insisted that hard drives are perfectly reliable for long-term storage, he came back a while later and announced that one of the hard drives he used died.
>> Anonymous
There's no more a single reliable hard drive than a single reliable CD - one scratch on either and poof. Anything you really care about should be in two places - a second hard drive, dvds, the internet, something else. Two of them if you're offloading it. When one inevitably fails, you just replace before the other ones does.

If you're really paranoid, you keep your copies encrypted in a safe deposit box a thousand miles away, guarded by Meximoot.

(And you're right that hard drives still aren't as cost-effective as DVDs, and BD/HDDVD will probably be cheaper too, soon. Cost for convenience.)
>> Anonymous
RAID-5. 'nough said.