[Hidden-tech] Recommendations for 1.5 or 2 TB External Hard Drives for OSX

[Will Loving]

I regularly listen to various podcasts produced by Alex Lindsey, a prolific
photographer and videographer and someone who produces and stores and
enormous amount of content. He is fond of saying:

"If it doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist."

"Three places" meaning your original and two backups. For me, I backup
everything to Drobo continuously and I also backup critical files offsite
using Carbonite for about $45/year with coupon code.

Will

Will Loving, President
Dedication Technologies, Inc.



on 3/15/11 3:45 PM, Shel Horowitz at shel at frugalfun.com wrote:

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> At 12:34 PM -0400 3/15/11, Rich Roth wrote:
>> The bottom line is with RAID setups, a single drive crash will not lose
>> any data -- even the better cheap drives come with mirroring
>> available, so long
>> as it is 2 drive unit - just be sure to setup for the reliability mode.
> 
> But wouldn't remote offsite backup also be a good idea? If your
> computer, single hard drive, and backup RAID array happened to be
> located in northeast Japan, your data is probably gone, along with
> your house.
> 
> Not to be glib, but disasters are a real issue.


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