[Gllug] Terrible weekend

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 06 Mar, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> 

> 
> You can get hold of a couple of external 250-300Gb USB2/Firewire hard
> disks quite cheaply. If you rotate them, and keep them disconnected and
> unpowered when not using them, you get a reasonable level of data
> security without spending a huge amount. It's not as good as tape, but
> for the data sizes you're looking at you'd need an LTO drive and tapes.
> If your data doesn't change a lot (e.g. a photo archive or something)
> you can burn a bunch of DVDs as well.
> 
   I thought that the thermal shocks associated with power cycling was
supposed to be bad for hard discs.


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Chris Bell

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