On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my > videos on, eventually.
Hi Dale, One thing I wanted to point out about the task you have in front of you. There is a problem in your work statement here and it really comes down to one single one letter word. That word was 'a', as in "buy me _a_ LARGE hard drive" No matter what drive you purchase, and no matter how well you treat it, they all fail eventually and you lose your movies & all the time it takes to put it back together again. At a minimum, if you plan on buying one to use then you need to buy a _second_ drive to do backups of the first. You need to rsync that second drive on a regular basis and then disconnect it and put it in a different place in the house, or even better, store it in a safety deposit box to protect against theft or your house burning down, etc. This sort of comment certainly goes for the system as a whole, but at a seasoned Gentoo user I'm sure you're doing that already. ;-) Just don't forget to do the same for this new drive. Have fun, Mark
