Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!
I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. Sent from my iPad On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:18, Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com wrote: I was distracted for a week trying to recover a lost disk but I put the SSD in place again yesterday. This time I wrapped the SSD in aluminium foil and put 2 clamp on cores on the SATA cable. I fired up my system, and the extra measures had no noticeable improvement on the birdie situation. The birdies appear as soon as I power up the drive. A local Ham, who has not particularly good wiring in his shack and close-by antennas, uses SS drives without reporting issues. Are your drives inside the computer? Have you run checks to see what the point of egress from the computer, or ingress to the receiving system, are? I'm not a big fan of throwing beads at noise issues, or wrapping things. Usually that isn't a good solution. Running a series of tests to locate the point of leakage is usually faster and better. Are there any good articles on how to run tests that anyone is aware of? 73 Tom ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:38 -0400, W2PM wrote: I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. Sent from my iPad Hi, I can't get past the fact that in the cloud I would be entrusting complete strangers with *everything* I have on record including the privacy of my data. I just don't trust any big city strangers that much. If the security and safety of your data doesn't matter that much why bother about the expense of the cloud? YMMV. 73, Bill KU8H ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!
I'm with Bill, I still use external drives for backups for the same reason, but am tempted with the cloud Maybe our worries are unfounded ? Do the cloud systems back up the data (on external hard drives, :-) ? Bob K6UJ On Jul 6, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote: On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:38 -0400, W2PM wrote: I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. Sent from my iPad Hi, I can't get past the fact that in the cloud I would be entrusting complete strangers with *everything* I have on record including the privacy of my data. I just don't trust any big city strangers that much. If the security and safety of your data doesn't matter that much why bother about the expense of the cloud? YMMV. 73, Bill KU8H ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise! off topic material moved off list
Hi, I have moved comments with interested people regarding backups and clouds, etc off list. I got into this thread because I too was getting intolerable interference form a desktop computer power supply. All the rest moved quickly off topic. On another note, I have had an opportunity to sniff around for my computer on top band and was pleased to NOT find it. The addition of the EMI filter in my power supply worked after two attempts to get it right (better ground for the filter) worked very well. 73, Bill KU8H ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!
I don't know about you, but we have data that is far too important not to make multiple backup copies ourselves. Think about whether you are willing to take a of risk losing it all because the cloud had a glitch or closed their doors. A large cloud service corporation has made news headlines more than once because they permanently lost some of their customer's data. The cloud might be a convenient addition to external hard drives and optical media, but I would never trust my data exclusively to any third party regardless of how they backup the data. We have years of work and our means of living backed up on several external drives, DVDs/CD-ROMs, and memory sticks (some of which are in a safe deposit box). Not everyone needs all that, I realize. But if the data you have on your computers is important enough that it needs to be backed up, I suggest that you don't solely rely on any third party. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bob K6UJ k...@pacbell.net wrote: I'm with Bill, I still use external drives for backups for the same reason, but am tempted with the cloud Maybe our worries are unfounded ? Do the cloud systems back up the data (on external hard drives, :-) ? ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
