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OT: Computer Hard Drive & Backup Management

2007-04-20 by Christopher L. Johnston

Here's how I do it.

 

I have three machines in my office.

 

1] Bookkeeping, old and slow doesn't need to be new and fast, 1drive with
redundant back-ups to jump drives. Not connected to the net never will be.
No risk to financial data to virus or external hack.

 

2] Office machine, new, screaming fast 3GB ram, single monitor,  3 SATA
drives, 1-C Drive80GB, smallest I could get in Namibia, 160GB D-Drive Data,
160GB E-Drive, music and photos + External IDE 250GB for backing-up
everything. Only machine connected to the net.

 

3] Photo-machine, Blistering fast, 4GB Ram, dual monitor, 80GB C-Drive,
mirrored Raid 1, 320GB SATA drives for photo storage, 160GB SATA drive for
Music files, external 1TB firewire back-up. No risk to data to virus or
external hack.

 

All the Drives on my office machine and photo machine are rack mounted so I
can pull them and put them in the safe when I leave the office for extended
periods.  I do not partition drives, Storage is cheap, files are big.

 

Christopher L. Johnston

Johnston-Namibia c.c.

PO Box 354

Omaruru Namibia

 <mailto:chris@...> chris@...

 

"Sic  parvis magna"

 

 



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