On Tue, January 12, 2010 18:28, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: > Yeah. I'm suspicious of hard drives too, especially since, in 15 > years I've had two crash and on one I lost all the files from a year > at the local paper. They've gotten so much *better* in the 40 years I've been dealing with them :-). Back when we were using 14" 5-platter removable disk packs, we'd lose one every year or two -- or more often if somebody got clumsy. And there was generally at most one backup copy. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
