On 04.11.2010 18:26, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Thu 04 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Good local vendors are worth the higher prices we pay because the service >> can be outstanding. 'can' is such a devilish little word. I agree the service should be outstanding, but quite often it is not. > I fully agree. > > About external drives: I have a 500GB WD MyBook drive, and a great > feature is that the disk spins down if idle for more than 10 minutes or > so. Because of that I don't bother turning it off if not using it for a > day or so. Does anyone know enay other types that also do this? > > I do prefer having idle backup disks offline and totally disconnected > though, as a switched off but connected drive _will_ die in case of e.g. > a lightning strike near your house. Offsite backups are also good :-) But _the one_ backup disk will be dead anyway, as soon as you really need it! Keep it locked in an air conditioned bank vault? Doesn't matter.
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