Yes, both Jan and I have them and use them for archiving (as well as
optical media for the second backup).
There is also a drop-in external drive USB/eSATA stand available that looks
a lot like a drop-in charger for a handi-talkie. It accommodates both 2.5"
(laptop) and 3.5" (desktop) bare hard drives, but I am not sure whether or
not it accommodates the old (IDE) and new (eSATA) HD data formats. They
run about $25 to $15. One Terabyte hard drives are now under $100.
(Amazing! I paid around $350 each for my first three hard drives, 30MB,
75MB and 120MB!)
Still in search of the best archiving media the hunt has turned to thumb
drives. After about an hour of poking around on the Web it seems that a
flash drive that is loaded up and stored in a reasonably cool, dry, place
can keep data safe for at least a lifetime, perhaps much more. The major
limits seem to be number of write cycles, which depends on the type of
memory (SLC or MLC), and the number of insertions into the USB connector
(around 1500).
Mention was made that a major factor might be that in the future there
would be no hardware or software capable of reading the drives. I disagree
as there are still available machines that can play some of the oldest
mechanical media in existence that I can think of in modern times,
cylindrical music records. While they might be in museums, as data storage
advances, worthwhile data tends to be carried forward too to newer media.
The older boats ("classic boats") tend to be the more beautiful boats
because the more beautiful boats attract the care needed to stay alive.
The same with data.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
> Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Dead Laptop
>
> > 'bella,
> >
> > You may be able to pull the hard drive from the dead laptop and insert
it
> > into another laptop to get your data from it if the HD itself is
> > functional.
> >
> > Jan and I have carried just one laptop and our two hard drives on trips.
> > Whichever HD we insert takes total control so it seems like each of us
has
> > our own laptop yet we have to carry only one.
> >
> >
> > Norm
>
>
> It may be easier to simply get one of the external drive cases and pop
> the HD into it. Then it becomes an external USB drive you can access with
> any computer.
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