cosmicnut on 21/6/2006 at 14:02
The really dopey thing is, my first ever PC (386) had a 40MB hard disk (yes I have more memory in my modern box than my first hard drive :eek: ). I used ti for 3 years straight! The other day I actually connected it to my PC and it STILL WORKS.
I don't know, they really don't build things like they used to....
(god, now I know I'm getting old!)
Assidragon on 21/6/2006 at 16:00
Oh oh oh! My first PC was a 386 too (386-SX with 1MB RAM and no maths co-processor to be exact). And it had a 40MB HDD too :thumb:
Nameless_Voice on 21/6/2006 at 17:17
Quote Posted by Assidragon
The second, I'd think.
Yes, I was describing my own situation there unfortunately.
Drat on 21/6/2006 at 18:19
The HD on my old computer is failing too. It had some weird error while I was transferring some files between partitions last night. I eventually ran Spinrite on it. Bad sectors like crazy. I stopped it after about 10 hours, as it projected that it would have taken around another two weeks or so to try testing for all the errors and attempting to recover what data it could. And that's just for one 30 gig partition! I'm gonna just get a new drive and dump what I can to it. And I'll very likely invest in a DVD burner, for backup purposes.
Kolya on 21/6/2006 at 19:05
DVD burner doesn't cut it for backing up in my experience. How do you backup a few hundred gigs to DVD? Before I'd be finished with burning the data would have changed so significantly that I could start again.
I'd prefer a mirror drive for back up. But atm I have nothing like that, just partitions... :erg:
Assidragon on 21/6/2006 at 19:43
You mean, all the things you work on is few hundred gigs large?
Kolya on 22/6/2006 at 00:28
A backup where I have to filter through my Data partition first is no use to me.
It would take endless amounts of patience to decide what I want to backup and how I fit it onto those small small DVDs and in the end I'd have a backup that misses a lot of stuff that I have to retrieve from the net or whereever...
And yeah, it'll still be a few hundred gigs. Maybe if I take out music and movies it would be only about 60 GB ... wow. But I like my music and movies.
FunkyG on 22/6/2006 at 02:19
Excellent news from the front line boys and girls... FAT just corrupted... dunno why. GetDataBack is currently recovering files to my new drive... shweet!
Thanks for all your backup advice... I think its time i give it a go... 600gbs is too much to loose to a virus or dirty power or some such crap.
I'll get back to my work once i've reinstalled everything and I finally get all the Shodans out of my PC.
cosmicnut on 22/6/2006 at 08:33
I do have an old backup system I could send you. It's a small card that connects the PC to the svideo in of your VCR, stores about 300mbs on a 3 hour tape! even more if you use long play!
Of course that means 6 hours when you can't use your PC, tonnes of old clanky VHS tapes and a small patch of interference damaging files.....
God I've wasted soo much money over the years.
Almost as bad as my syquest Sparq drive. Looks like a zip disk but does 1gb with 4xcdrom read speeds on read/write. Only problem was that the disks tended to get jammed in the drive due to the poor eject mechanism forcing you to switch the PC off!!!! Of course, you can't get the disks these days....
Best backup option for 300gb+ drives as far as I see it is DDS tape. It's slow and expensive but safe and with DDS4 doing 40gbs it's better than DVD
Briareos H on 22/6/2006 at 08:45
At $500 the drive and $10 the 40GB tape (new), one would be better off buying another hard drive and setting up a RAID.
