Referring to raid, raid on the desktop is a pain in the ass, when you need to do system recovery or reinstall the system it can be tricky to get the drives to show up in systems like boot discs. I highly recommend external raid enclosures though, you buy a 2 disk enclosure and everything is contained within that enclosure.…
I have a 2TB external raid 5 enclosure connected through eSata. I have Acronis True Image create images of the C drive every night and overwrite after there are 3 of them. I also use have Microsoft Synctoy scheduled to create straight data backups of all my program settings and data files. Occasionally I've had to use an…
I only back up client work nightly. Things I do personally, not so much, only big projects. I am more concerned about loosing the ability to do my work than if the work was gone via theft or fire. Email is offsite. Applications like Adobe, Autodesk, Newtek are just a login away to their respective online account management…
I read up a little bit about RAIDs. My impression was they were a bit over kill for personal use. Also, perhaps more importantly, I read RAIDs were tied to certain motherboards. If you chose a raid and then, later on, want to upgrade your motherboard/computer, you'll have to make sure you get one that is compliant with…
My brother recently shared this article with me and now I'm paranoid my hard drive is about to break at any moment. As it rightfully should mind, as my current system for backing up stuff is half-arsed at best. At the moment I just backup all my important stuff to a 1TB Toshiba hard drive, and then the really important…