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I leave the covers off my computers and have been switching drives in
and out since 2000. I had only one C drive go down when the power supply
burnt up suddenly. I lost only emails as my photo-data was on another drive and
it didn't fail. Most of the drives I have are Maxtor except for a few IBM
drives. Maxtor no longer exist as it was bought out by Seagate. I have a backup
drive in the computer now and a backup drive off premises.
I also have a card so I can run four more drives plus the three in the
computer at once (CD-DVD recorder-player takes up one slot of the four
spots in the the computer) I even have a couple of drives connected
to my computer card and sitting on my desk top.
I found this to be quite satisfactory but if you want absolute protection
you need a raid type system.
Internal backup is/has been much faster than USB. I been told there are now
computer that have Sata connections built into the back of the computer so you
can make use of internal (cheaper) or external Sata drives outside of the
computer. I am not familiar with external drives so I don't know what type of
fans they have.
Roy
I also have put some extra backups on smaller old drives I don't use
anymorebackups of some stuff
In a message dated 10/24/2010 5:04:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
fotodiseno2003@xxxxxxxxx writes:
A friend recommended *internal* drives and an adaptor cable. Its troublesome if you don't like opening the CPU and making connections, but definitely cheaper and maybe more reliable. |
