Comments on: Backups are important, huh? http://zaf.geek.nz/blog/2007/06/15/backups-are-important-huh/ Thoughts from the geek Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:36:10 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rob http://zaf.geek.nz/blog/2007/06/15/backups-are-important-huh/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Rob Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:16:15 +0000 http://zaf.geek.nz/blog/2007/06/15/backups-are-important-huh/#comment-123 My 2gig USB flash (samsung rundisk 2.0) has survived many a fall, constantly being removed without stopping, much data being added and wiped, and a run through the washing machine (dried it on top of the heater before reuse). Still though I fear the day when it decides to die. It's lasted longer than some CD's I've burned. Occasionally I take a copy of the data, and there's nothing on it I can't recover (mostly utilities). But that day when I plug it in and it's gone, you'll hear a loud expletive from whereever I am. Hard disk recovery appears to be a good business, that's $5.66 a meg, assuming the drive was full. A quick search on DSE for HDD's shows even a small one with bad $ to gigs ratio comes in at $0.00175 per meg. I remember when a new HDD was about $1/meg heh My 2gig USB flash (samsung rundisk 2.0) has survived many a fall, constantly being removed without stopping, much data being added and wiped, and a run through the washing machine (dried it on top of the heater before reuse). Still though I fear the day when it decides to die. It’s lasted longer than some CD’s I’ve burned. Occasionally I take a copy of the data, and there’s nothing on it I can’t recover (mostly utilities). But that day when I plug it in and it’s gone, you’ll hear a loud expletive from whereever I am.

Hard disk recovery appears to be a good business, that’s $5.66 a meg, assuming the drive was full. A quick search on DSE for HDD’s shows even a small one with bad $ to gigs ratio comes in at $0.00175 per meg. I remember when a new HDD was about $1/meg heh

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