>A second, or third, hard drive doesn't have to be in the same room, or >building. There are a lot af External USB 2.0 hard drives showing up in Of course they don't have to be in the same building ... the question is a human one though - how often are they kept elsewhere? I'm all in favour of them but for really crucial data any manual system is likely to get neglected. Despite comparatively huge off-site costs such backups can be automated (potentially never risking more than the last few minutes / hours worth of data. >ads and the prices keep getting more and more attractive. And, there >are kits to turn any IDE hard drive into an externa USB 2.0 hard drive. I've got just such a thing - less than 20-dollars. If kept off-site though I'd have the fag of going to collect it, back-up, take it back ... not impossible but ... And are my normal HDDs shock-proof (eg if I drop the bag?) >If the images are important enough and you have a safe deposit box at >the local bank, an externa hard drive can be stored there...... That's certainly a possiblity. I'm too bone idle to google this one ... do HDDs "go off" if just allowed to sit there? Say for 3 years unused ... Just wondering. Nope, I think we need some kind of digitally encoded print ... which can be easily scanned back to a binary format. Bob ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/
