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Hard drives needed – any sales on NOW!
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HI am looking for a good external hard drive for myself and one for the twin.
does anyone know of sales on now for these gizmos.
lot of images to back up.
working hard on my ‘housekeeping!’
ann :Dpc world sell a few
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-external-hard-drives/720_7065_70070_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
If you want a safe backup, consider buying a NAS instead of an ordinary HDD.
network attached storage
or a hdd (or several) in a network reachable form handy if you have many computers or buy 2 hdds and get trhe backup software to back up to the one and then have the second mirror that so you have two hdds with your data on incase some twerp breaks/steals/looses them :)
just a thought…
ah right! well, I dont think i am going pro at this time of my life and i dont think my ‘lost image/s’ will mean losing say, 1 million euros, if it did i would sell the lot now and forget the hard drives/s!!!
xannNAS has two big advantages:
First advantage is that you can access it from anywhere, so for example if you are on holiday, you can send your photos home every day and you don´t have to be afraid that you lose or accidentally format your memory card or that you simply won´t have enough space.
Second advantage is that it can be used as a disaster recovery option, but in this case you don´t keep it at home, or at least not in the same room as your computer.Take a look in that well known photographic dealers, Eason’s. I bought a 1TB Seagate for £70 there and they also had 1.5TB at £90
just a mnor point, NAS is not a backup solution and neither is a single hard drive
Theoretically NAS can be any storage device which is accessible via network so it can be a single external hard drive with network interface.
And of course it can be used as a backup solution, moreover more secure than a classic external HDD because it can be kept in a different place.No, a backup solution is something that is taken offline once the backup is performed. As a nas would be online all the time it is prone to the same failures as a direct attached raid.
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No, a backup solution is something that is taken offline once the backup is performed. As a nas would be online all the time it is prone to the same failures as a direct attached raid.
No, this is just one type called cold backup.
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