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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone backing up their files online?

2011-02-10 by Dana Myers

On 2/10/2011 11:19 AM, zz_ir wrote:
>
> I'm still not sold on online storage at this point, so I invested $60 in a 1TB Iomega external drive for my primary backup for 
> my files. It is a great alternative to CD/DVD. I also have another 160G, secondary external harddrive that I keep off site.
>

I would *highly* recommend using at least a RAID 0 "mirror" for back-up
purposes.  With a single drive, any error results in lost data; the chances
of losing data are substantially less.

Dana



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