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Mike
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Date Posted: 13:20:37 07/13/10 Tue
In reply to:
RustyKen
's message, "Re: Old times, and a new book" on 20:12:47 07/12/10 Mon
>>>I figured maybe three chapters; I'm
>>>about done with seven now, starting on last Friday,
>>>and have at least three more worked out in my head.
>>>That's probably about a quarter to a third of the
>>>book, and well past where I figured to stop.
>>
>>Hey Wes,
>>
>>Just a friendly reminder, I hope you're backing these
>>things up offsite. Just recently, I read that "Dual
>>Writer" lost a bunch of chapters when his computer
>>packed up, and two weekends ago, my brother in law had
>>his home (and computers) destroyed in a house fire.
>>
>>Please protect yourself.
>>
>>
>
>When working with computers, it always wise to save
>often and frequently. An easy thing to overlook or
>forget.
>
>I was burned earlier late last year by two different
>drives same manufacturer having write problems which
>resulted in trashed files. You didn't know there was
>a problem until you tried to open them. Not a joyful
>experience. So now I have an external drive on each
>PC to where active files are saved frequently.
>Needless to say when I replaced the drives they were
>made by a different manufacturer. On the whole it
>wasn't a lot of money but it was certainly a lot of
>agravation.
>
>BTW, there are programs available the let you look at
>the the hard drives status. With linux, it is called
>gsmartcontrol
>
>Cheers, Rustyken
Mind telling me (offline if you prefer) what make and model drives ?
There's a BIOS feature canned SMART that I make sure is turned on. And a free Windows program written by Pantera Software called HD Health that has given more than one of my friends a heads-up before their drives actually failed.
And mirrored or RAIDed drives (i.e. two or more drives set up to look like one drive) are not the solution if they are all the same make, model, and batch. A friend of mine that works for a bank can tell you what happened (in great detail) when a 5-drive array of five-year warranty drives hit the 66th month (hint: they all died within 6 weeks of each other).
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