I just installed this into the Mal-Fits department of redundancy. I was a little worried about the growing accumulation of images, articles, music, and other goodies that would really trouble me to lose. The Photoshop backup alone is now at 14 CD's and getting bigger every time.
The answer was this easy. We bought a MyBook external USB hard drive.
This thing has no instructions with it, in the usual sense. It has a page with three diagrams on it. They show plugging in the power line, plugging in the USB cord, and the optional 'load the trial software' step. The reality is this thing is truly plug and play. Plug it in and an extra 500 gig hard drive shows up on your computer.
I backed up everything in about twenty minutes, and thats with cherry picking folders too.
Nice...... I'll push the Easy Button on this one!
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Not trying to burst your bubble or anything here but Western Digital has gone from being one of the best hard rives made back in the 90s to beeing the sorriest drive on the market today.
If it starts feeling a little too warm, you better get your stuff off it right away. This particular barnd and model is known for overheating and taking a shit when you least expect it. Been there. done that 3 times with these drives.
When this ones dies, buy a Seagate. They last forever, always run cool and are warrantied for 5 years parts and labor.
Take it from a guy who knows. All I do is fix computers and networks. 99 percent of the problems I fix is from cheap, crappy hardware that some salesperson talked the poor person into buying.
Good luck with it. Maybe you got lucky and got one of the few good ones Western Digital accidently makes now and then.
Joe
Thank you, I appreciate the warning.
Funny thing is... even though I didn't do the usual research before buying this unit, I rather expected it to be about as you describe.
Why would I buy it then? Mostly about 100 dollars worth of reasons.
That, and the use I intend for it.
As I sit typing right now it's not plugged in. Either to the PC or to the wall.
We are using it as a backup only, and not our only one. It will swing into use whenever we have produced enough we feel a backup is needed or in case we have a blowout on one of the boxes. It would be the easiest way of recovering.
Even with this limited used... we are only backing up data files, not software and certainly not mirroring any hard drives. While that has merit, we are talking personal PC's here running Windows common man operating systems. If they go kerflooie I can afford a day to rebuild a machine, and like a fresh install over a 'recovery' if I can.
Given our planned use, I made a $100 bet that we'll be Ok.
The important stuff is still backed up in other ways as well. Gig thumbs are dirt cheap, just hard to keep track of whats on them.
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