Re: [Apple iPod] Storage Issues on Laptop

all hd's will die..internal or external makes no difference..the odds of both an internal and external dying at the same time are small..and that would give you time to get a third drive to replace the defective one.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jules
To: AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Apple iPod] Storage Issues on Laptop

By definition it is a backup actually. And yes, the world might end
tomorrow, but for now an external is a very good way of backing up
your tunes.
jules

--- In AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com, "bj" <bjones44@...> wrote:
>
> As far as I'm concerned, a hard drive, external or otherwise, isn't a
> "backup".
> What makes you think that external HD isn't going to crash too?
>
> If you're going to use HD for backup, at least (as Reddy says he
does), do
> *two*.
> bj
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Otto Nikolaus" <otto.nikolaus@...>
> To: <AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Apple iPod] Storage Issues on Laptop
>
>
> > Backup! Backup! Backup!
> >
> > No excuse these days with the prices of 250-500 drives. :D
> >
> > Otto
> >
> > On 18/09/2007, Prabhaker Reddy <ppreddy1990@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> I do not keep audio files on my lap top. I got burnt once and lost
> >> everything when my lap top crashed. My entire I tunes library is
on an
> >> external Hard Drive. I have an additional external HD as
secondary back
> >> up.
> >> Portable Hard Drives are inexpensive and one can buy a 250GB HD
for $130.
> >> I
> >> have about 300 books and they are stored on both the Hard Drives.
> >
>

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