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'68 Coronet R/T

'68 Coronet R/T

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Had another serious computer crash as my hard drive locked up never to start or be read again.
Just now starting to get back to normal.
Now to catch up on all the threads I was following. :encouragement:
 
uhhhh, hard drives are so unreliable. i just had the one in my time machine fail. its sitting here all apart. ill have to replace that. this is prob the third drive i had go bad in three years out of a total of six that i own. never buy a cheap drive. all my externals are all g-drives now. hopefully in the near future they will all goto solidstate.
 
We now have 2 of the computers coveted to I guess its called "static drive" Supposedly, this will eliminate the replace a drive every three years after you lose everything.
Not sure about that but they are a ton faster, anyway.
 
i learned to keep everything on flash drives. if my laptop crashes no big deal since i wont loose anything.
 
You guys probably already know this, but power outages are a major killer of poor innocent hard drives, UPS's are good :) SSDs are awesome, but if you're a bit tech savvy you could also scrounge up some parts and build a home server. Tons of free non Windows software setups out there or even M$ has a decent "Home server" option (although it's being phased out with 2012). The bonus of a small server is you can backup your PCs to it. I have an OLD AMD desktop (used to be my kid's PC) with 512 MB of RAM and 4x500GB(RAID5) disks that runs Windows Home Server 2003, it in turn backs up to an external hard drive and the house PCs back up to it. It's slow but all it does is store data.

If I had a small business I'd have a small server **and** I would use an online backup service as well. Data corruption can come in more ways than just a HDD dying.
 
Welcome back, '68!

I'm a computer nerd, but I don't really have the time or interest to set up a server for myself. I just use Carbonite; there may be better online backup services, but Carbonite's easy to use and really helped me the last time my office PC had a dead hard drive.

Oh, yeah, and I copy some stuff over to a second hard drive, so they'd both have to fail as well as the "cloud" evaporating for me to lose customer and financial data, etc.
 
Thanks.
I set up an external hard drive by Seagate that creates a back up of my entire system and then automatically updates the back up whenever I add or edit files.
Hopefully I won't lose everything next time around. This was a fresh computer build less than 1 year ago that the Western Digital hard drive froze up on. My printer wouldn't work so I rebooted the computer never to have it start again.
 
I feel your pain. I had a computer that was starting to act hinky and decided it was time to back up all of my pictures to a disc "just in case". Well, you guessed it - about a third the way through, the computer shit the bed and all went away.
 
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