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Originally Posted by Yngwie
oh I know.. my plan was to buy more blank dvds so I could burn it all and keep it safe and when I would have the $ I was going to buy 1 or 2 more hard drives and make mirrored backups on both, but disk failure beat me to it.
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Originally Posted by crockett
A second HD in the same machine is not a safe way to back up data. I did that and learned my lesson the hard way. I had a power supply go bad and it fried the entire PC including both HD's.
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true but for someone on a budget its much better then nothing which is what he has right now.
also you can allways unplug the hd from power except for the times your doing backups.