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Russic · 01-19-2009, 03:04 PM

I've never actually had a bad crash before. That being said I'm terrified of it actually happening. I currently have a mac with my most important files on it that backs up hourly to a 1 TB external drive. Because I do agree with Hack's suggestion that a drive shouldn't run constantly, I then have a 500 gig drive that I plug in once a month to backup anything new and important I may have acquired. This drive stays in a closet when not in use.

This is my dream set-up:

http://www.drobo.com/

Essentially, it's a casing that holds up to 4 hard drives but shows up as one giant drive on your desktop. anytime one drive begins to fail it auto-dumps all your data to another drive. Once the drive has died you swap it out for a new one and all your data is safe. $500 though. I'd love to have one.

01-19-2009, 03:04 PM	#15
Russic Dances with Wolves Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Section 304 Exp:	I've never actually had a bad crash before. That being said I'm terrified of it actually happening. I currently have a mac with my most important files on it that backs up hourly to a 1 TB external drive. Because I do agree with Hack's suggestion that a drive shouldn't run constantly, I then have a 500 gig drive that I plug in once a month to backup anything new and important I may have acquired. This drive stays in a closet when not in use. This is my dream set-up: http://www.drobo.com/ Essentially, it's a casing that holds up to 4 hard drives but shows up as one giant drive on your desktop. anytime one drive begins to fail it auto-dumps all your data to another drive. Once the drive has died you swap it out for a new one and all your data is safe. $500 though. I'd love to have one.