Cyd Roseland Question
witch:
I used to burn to CD or DVD before I got an external HDD.
ZephyrZodiac:
It's a pain, isn't it, cds aren't so bad, they don't take long, but they hold so little! I'm thinking of going over to rewritable dvds for now. The sad thing is, online storage is useless. Maybe ok for backing up your whole hard drive, but for individual folders, at least the system offered by my ISP, is useless, as you can't download the whole folder, just one file at a time, which means your sims are totally useless. I think I might try zipping up and then uploading and see if that works, but I'll do the zipping and not leave it to the upload program, it seems to overload my CPU whenever I try that! But an external HD is probably better, and cheaper, in the long run, but I think probably best unplugged except when it's being used, just in case I have another fan go and incinerate my files!
witch:
I haven't had much luck with re-writable CDs, they've been very unreliable for me. Never tried a re-writable DVD.
I actually hide my external drive after the weekly backup. I figure if I get ripped off they'll probably get all the PCs but at least I'll have data backup and insurance. I also use a password set in the bios, so if I get ripped off by your average teenage opportunist thief, they probably won't be able to get the machines to work.
ZephyrZodiac:
It's about the only thing I don't really worry about - I suppose if it's never happened to you, you tend to think it never will.....
That is the one advantage of online back-up - no matter what gets nicked, you can at least restore your pc to what it was, if you should ever get it back......
I hate using passwords to get my pc started, so I tend to disable all but the necessary user accounts so I don't even have to click the load screen at start-up! But then, I live alone apart from my cat, and I don't think he's into computer games. :D
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 August 31, 09:51:29
It's a pain, isn't it, cds aren't so bad, they don't take long, but they hold so little!
CDs hold so LITTLE? I've always found CDs to be frequently too LARGE for what I'd want to keep, seeing as CDs are effectively useless unless what you're storing is in the 500-650MB range. This makes them completely useless for anything that isn't a few hundred MB.
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