Comments on: Hard Drive Woes http://dactyl.dartmouth.edu/wordpress/archives/2008/05/15/hard-drive-woes/ The non-official physics and astronomy blog at Dartmouth. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:18:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Nathaniel http://dactyl.dartmouth.edu/wordpress/archives/2008/05/15/hard-drive-woes/#comment-51291 Nathaniel Mon, 19 May 2008 03:27:40 +0000 http://dactyl.dartmouth.edu/wordpress/?p=2701#comment-51291 The drive I just got was a portable USB Western Digital 320 GB and it ended up being $139. The 250 GB drives are under $100, in fact I think I saw it at http://www.bhphotovideo.com for $85 if I remember right. I'm going for portable bus-powered drives for backups right now because it cuts one more failure point out of the equation. On a desktop drive, the power supply could die. Of course, the drive won't be as fast, but it's only something that I'll be running once a week. They say there are two types of people in the world: those who back up and those who haven't had a hard drive die yet! The drive I just got was a portable USB Western Digital 320 GB and it ended up being $139. The 250 GB drives are under $100, in fact I think I saw it at http://www.bhphotovideo.com for $85 if I remember right. I’m going for portable bus-powered drives for backups right now because it cuts one more failure point out of the equation. On a desktop drive, the power supply could die. Of course, the drive won’t be as fast, but it’s only something that I’ll be running once a week.

They say there are two types of people in the world: those who back up and those who haven’t had a hard drive die yet!

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