Comments on: Learn to recognize failing hard drive by sound

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:16:51 +0000

@Spunky Jones

See http://www.rarst.net/tag/dropbox/ for my posts on Dropbox and backup in general.

Dropbox in few words – excellent usability, lowish initial free storage, considerable free storage from referrals.

By: Spunky Jones

Spunky Jones — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:03:49 +0000

@ Rarst – I have some external USB drives as well backing up the files. I still need to find a off-site backup solution that is affordable. At the moment, I am using Jungle Disk for off-site backups.

I will look into dropbox and see what they offer. Thanks for the info.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:16:05 +0000

Well, cool sound diagnostic skills are still no replacement for proper backup routine. :)

Sorry about your emails. Is NAS your only backup medium? It is quite easy to store moderate amounts of data in the cloud nowaday, I am more than happy with Dropbox.

By: Spunky Jones SEO

Spunky Jones SEO — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:58:51 +0000

With the new solid state drives, one doesn’t have the option of hearing any warnings of the hardrive failing. Recently, I experienced one of my 200GB solid state drives that just died without any warning at all. The system was working good, took a break and came back to a frozen screen. That’s all she wrote. I lose quite a bite of data. I had just moved and didn’t have my NAS up and working, so I lost one weeks of emails.

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