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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Why would any consumer or even a small business want or need a 6TB hard drive? Supersized hard drives take longer to back-up, restore, wipe, and maintain (i.e., defrag, scandisk, etc.). And even if I had enough photos, music, videos, and other files to file a 6TB hard drive, I wouldn’t want all that important data on one disk at the risk of a hard drive failure. Yes, I realize that these issues can be mitigated by partitioning the hard drive, but this is far beyond the expertise of most consumers and I have had entire hard drives fail notwithstanding partitions. Seems to me that the better approach is to have multiple smaller hard drives — one for the OS and programs, one for data and media files, and one for backing up the other two.


40 posted on 01/31/2014 1:14:10 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos

I would also use Dropbox as another backup, in case a fire destroys all of your hard drives.


43 posted on 01/31/2014 1:15:20 PM PST by dfwgator
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