Re: Restore vs Backup

My experience is that as hard drives have become cheaper the failure rate
has gone up. This is only my experience. It could be that it's just due to
more hard drives being in use so the number of actual failures is higher but
the rate of failure is lower. In the end it comes down to one thing. A hard
drive has moving parts. Moving parts wear out. Eventually every hard drive
will fail. Your backup startegy should be based on this and how critical
your data is. As you say, if the data is not that important then a backup
isn't that important. Personally I've had several hard drives fail and I
replace failed drives for customers fairly regularly. Usually digital
pictures and emails are the things people are upset about losing.

Kerry

Pete B wrote:
Perhaps, but my previous PC went about 7 years with dual HDDs and
never had a drive failure. Finally it was replaced with my current
system because I needed more power. I know the possibility is always
there, though, hence the tinge of paranoia. I do not leave my PC
powered up when I am done at night, and I always power down when the
weather is bad to avoid power failures, yada yada. But of course
there is always the unforeseen....
Anyway, so long as I backup the data, it really will not matter
terribly, because if I have to, I can just reinstall all the app
software on a new HDD and then recover the data from my backups. We
are not talking mission-critical stuff here, just my own data for my
own business. Lot of work but what the heck......

So maybe I will try just using data backups to CDs or DVDs.


"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
news:%23BlFMlbKGHA.2012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Pete B wrote:

<snipped>

I will probably never have a HDD failure anyway, so it is really
just a tinge of paranoia from my earlier days with less reliable
PCs.

<more snippage>

You will have a hard drive fail. It is only a matter of time.

Kerry



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