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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 286111" data-attributes="member: 13090">I have an internal slave-drive that I keep *ALL* my data on. I copy the contents of the slave-drive to a third, external hard drive, every month and I typically have three monthly copies. In my opinion, your primary concern should be keeping your data OFF the hard drive that contains the operating system in whatever fashion you wish to accomplish this. I've heard a lot of people say, &quot;My hard drive crashed...&quot; when what really happened is their operating system crashed. These are two very different things. The drive, physically, is typically fine but any and all data that drive may have contained is now going to be wiped out of existence when the drive is reformatted as part of reinstalling the operating system. If I had to suggest a particular brand name of hard drive I'd say Western Digital. Full stop. I'm NOT saying other makes aren't good drives... I'm saying if you asked me, I'd say Western Dig. Every day of the week and twice on Sunday....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 286111, member: 13090"] I have an internal slave-drive that I keep *ALL* my data on. I copy the contents of the slave-drive to a third, external hard drive, every month and I typically have three monthly copies. In my opinion, your primary concern should be keeping your data OFF the hard drive that contains the operating system in whatever fashion you wish to accomplish this. I've heard a lot of people say, "My hard drive crashed..." when what really happened is their [I]operating system[/I] crashed. These are two very different things. The drive, physically, is typically fine but any and all data that drive may have contained is now going to be wiped out of existence when the drive is reformatted as part of reinstalling the operating system. If I had to suggest a particular brand name of hard drive I'd say Western Digital. Full stop. I'm NOT saying other makes aren't good drives... I'm saying if you asked me, I'd say Western Dig. Every day of the week and twice on Sunday. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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