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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness
- From: xorprime <xorprime@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:59:16 +1100
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> Both back-up drives were in USB external cases. I suspect my back-up
> failed because of a dodgey power issue with the external case, but
> that's conjecture at this point.
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External drives are ok for me as long as it has some Raid on it (at least
Raid 5). Single drive backup is like an optical backup with a lot of
rewrites ;-)