Text 13178, 52 rader
Skriven 2007-03-29 14:19:40 av Iain Rae (16621.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 13173 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (16616.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: OT: External storage solutions?
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Gregory Weston wrote:
> In article <LKDOh.16893$lD4.2310@fe02.news.easynews.com>,
>  Jeffrey MacHott <Raguleader@netzero.net> wrote:
> 
>> So, it looks like I'm shipping out to Basic Training with the Air Force 
>> in a few weeks, and I am planning to leave my computer with my little 
>> brother and buy a new one when I finish Basic.  The problem is, I have 
>> about 200 gigabytes of assorted crap I want to take with me, and so I'm 
>> looking for some reliable (preferably affordable) method of taking that 
>> stuff off of my computer, packing it in a box with some other assorted 
>> essentials I'll want to have near me when I finish Basic, and mailing it 
>> to wherever I am for my tech school.
>>
>> Pretty much the only things I can think of are burning everything to a 
>> DVD (a bit of an unwieldy solution, though I'll probably do just that 
>> for the really important stuff as opposed to the stuff I just kinda want 
>> to keep), and buying an external hard drive (or an internal drive with a 
>> solid enclosure), but I've been warned that many hard drives do not do 
>> well in the mail.
> 
> Almost every hard drive I've used in the last decade has come through 
> the mail or Fed Ex. Haven't had one show up unable to read its bundled 
> content yet. 
It depends on the packaging, I bought a disk a couple of years ago from 
an online supplier that were very cheap. The disk arrived in a jiffy bag 
and didn't work, the company gave me a refund but were unconvinced that 
the packaging was inadequate until I pointed out that the packaging 
violated the disks warranty.

If you ship the disk in whatever packing the disk arrives in you should 
be fairly safe, as long as it's not a jiffy bag :).

Whatever you do make sure you have two copies, the package could get 
lost in the post.






Drives in the capacity you need are cheap enough that if
> you're really concerned you can probably just get a second one and make 
> sure you've got backup copies.
> 
> There's also tape. It's not as cheap, but it's the backup medium of 
> choice for businesses that would literally die if they didn't have 
> reliable long term access to their data.
> 
> G
>
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