Comments on: Computer Woes http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2007/02/04/computer-woes-2/ Web site and blog for Maria Langer, freelance writer, commercial helicopter pilot, and serious amateur photographer. Sat, 19 May 2012 12:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Backup at the Touch of a Button? | Maria's Guides http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2007/02/04/computer-woes-2/#comment-9013 Backup at the Touch of a Button? | Maria's Guides Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:26:35 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2007/02/04/computer-woes-2/#comment-9013 [...] first thing I did when my hard disk failed on Friday (for the fourth time in less than 10 years) was to go online and find an external hard disk that [...] [...] first thing I did when my hard disk failed on Friday (for the fourth time in less than 10 years) was to go online and find an external hard disk that [...]

]]> By: Thuy http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2007/02/04/computer-woes-2/#comment-572 Thuy Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:13:44 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2007/02/04/computer-woes-2/#comment-572 Hi Maria, I don't know which you might be referring to as your main computer, but this is what I recommend for your G5: setup a RAID system. RAID 1 allows you to setup 2 mirroring hard drives, so that in case one of them crashed, you'll still have the other one. And if you replace the bad drive, you can restore your mirror set again. For years, I was having problems with Western Digital drives going bad on me, and they were 100-200 gig drives. I also got too busy to do backups of my system. I now have a RAID 1 setup for my PC, so I don't have to worry about losing data due to HDD failures anymore. Hope this helps you, Thuy Hi Maria,

I don’t know which you might be referring to as your main computer, but this is what I recommend for your G5: setup a RAID system. RAID 1 allows you to setup 2 mirroring hard drives, so that in case one of them crashed, you’ll still have the other one. And if you replace the bad drive, you can restore your mirror set again.

For years, I was having problems with Western Digital drives going bad on me, and they were 100-200 gig drives. I also got too busy to do backups of my system. I now have a RAID 1 setup for my PC, so I don’t have to worry about losing data due to HDD failures anymore.

Hope this helps you,

Thuy

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