If you're really serious (to borrow a phrase), you'll do backup to several different media and maybe different formats. With RAID or backup to an always-powered second HDD, you can loose all of your disks if the case power supply or MB fails in certain ways. (I know someone who lost a disk when the MB failed.) Or if someone steals your computer or in a fire. With removable HDD, you risk physical damage either from lack of use or shock.
FYI, I kept a 45 GB IBM and a 80 GB Seagate drive in a outside storage shed which got hot, cold, and damp for 10 months and they work fine. I guess I've been lucky because I've had only one failure from about 15 lightly-used disks and have occasionally reused 5- to 10-year-old disks for short durations after years on the shelf. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
