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Old 16-04-2011, 19:10   #16
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
Dai i think he does keep DVD backups on Dual layer discs of whats most important.
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Old 16-04-2011, 19:13   #17
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
Indeed they do. I've got DVD and CD backups that are unreadable after less than 5 years.
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Old 16-04-2011, 21:46   #19
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I use the cloud now for backups. Not just in one place either in a few
Who do you use ?
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Old 16-04-2011, 21:49   #20
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Adrive and Skydrive and upload to alt.bin.boneless

Adrive gives you 50 gig free and allows you to have multiple free accounts
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Old 16-04-2011, 22:14   #21
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Adrive gives you 50 gig free and allows you to have multiple free accounts
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Old 16-04-2011, 22:36   #22
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
While i have Disks here going back when i first got a 2x CD Writer that still work 10 or 12 years on.
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Old 16-04-2011, 23:00   #23
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While i have Disks here going back when i first got a 2x CD Writer that still work 10 or 12 years on.
yeah and ive had 500 gig hard drives fail within a couple of days. The nature of electronics and moving parts is sometimes things go wrong. Ive got a quantum fireball still works fine yet ive thrown Maxtors and Seagate's and Samsungs and Western Digitals away over the years.

Good practice is to back up back up and back up and the old adage do not put all your eggs in one basket is true today as its always been
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Well I have just had 1 of my Samsung 1tb drives fail after 18 months, problem is.it was bought from overclockers.
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
RMA to Samsung then.
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RMA to Samsung then.
I would but Overclockers did not buy them from Samsung UK, they got them from abroad somewhere.

Samsung here in the UK will not touch the drive so Overclockers have to send them to where they were bought from etc, so I am going to be without that drive for anything up to 2 month's with how long, it takes them to sort stuff out.
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sounds a bit shifty to me. Usually the manufacturers will except them.
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This might effect you mate. Serious design flaw in the Caviar Greens

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That doesn't affect my WD hdd's but interesting information for the OP.
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I personally do not like the idea of green drives. My efforct to save power is to put my pc into sleep mode instead of leaving it running when I aint at it lol
Vista and win7 by default try and put your drives to sleep after 20 minutes and if you do not disable it they sound like they struggle and the system lags when they wake up . Useless features
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