Are you also able to keep them away from the risk of fire, flood,
earthquake, hurricane, tornado, tsunami, war, pestilence, comet striking
the earth... ?
JL
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Brian Lightfoot wrote:
I still have a very old hard drive left over from the first 486 that I
built. It is now used on a Win98 computer for the grandkids with games only
on it. The holds a whopping 110 megabytes.
Yes, folks, while technology is getting better, manufacturing practices
certainly aren't. I've said this before: we still have the original
photographs around that were taken in the Civil War. Your BEST archival
method for your family files is a hard copy print out on acid-free paper and
stored properly. Then you don't have to worry about technological changes,
bit rot, magnetism, or alien abductions.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Carter
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:58 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backing Up Legacy Files
It very much depends on the brand and model. In the past six months I've
recovered data (for other people) from a 3 year old Western Digital IDE
drive (not bootable) and an 18 month old Samsung SATA drive (bad sectors
and not bootable). These were both desktop PCs, so not subject to the
mechanical abuse that laptops receive. On the other hand, I have an
ancient laptop that runs almost 24/7 on a drive that was used and of
unknown age when installed 3 years ago.
Thinking "no-years" leads to good backup practices ;-)
John
I heard 5 years, then I heard 2 years, then some-one told me they'd had
disks go bad in under one year. I'm down to thinking no-years. I think
it's one of those things where if it works - great! If it doesn't, good
thing I had another plan. I use external hard-drives, flash-drives,
online storage (Mozy) and email.
JL
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