Yes, and sometimes I believe that redundancy should also involve different brands or different natures, if (inspired by the example above) Seagates drive of a particular year are more prone to fail, then it is better to use one as a backup and a DD of another brand as a separate backup.
Thanks for making me more useful than a Swiss Army knife 🤩
I’ve read this one! Thanks for sharing it again. I lost the digital copy I had when I got a new computer.
I've had terrible luck the past year with backup drives.
Got 4TB drive I ordered (supposed to arrive tomorrow) from Western Digital that is said to have the lowest failure rate on the market.
I am sure you know how important this stuff is for you to have safely archived.
I've lost three Seagates, one due to a fall the other two just failed on me.
I am trying to get everything important to me (development, games, pdfs etc.) together so I can safely transport it to my new retreat.
Nothing worse than putting important PDFs somewhere then the drive fails.
I think I am going to start printing off hard copies of this stuff when it is important in addition to digital.
Have an M-DISK reader-writer I have not even used yet but that's also an option.
Brought some microfiche from Australia on important subjects, may try digitizing that as well once I am settled.
Redundancy should be your best friend! Multiple drives is my m.o.
Yes, and sometimes I believe that redundancy should also involve different brands or different natures, if (inspired by the example above) Seagates drive of a particular year are more prone to fail, then it is better to use one as a backup and a DD of another brand as a separate backup.
Certain things I also copy on an USB stick.
I have employed that method as well.