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Old 02-13-2009, 09:50 AM  
dready
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Originally Posted by SteveHardeman View Post
Hmmmm, what are your thoughts on this? What if I go get a mess of 100GB ext HD's and just archive like A-E on one, F-I on one. Anyone have experience with aging external harddrives? Am I setting myself up for failure if I happen to need something off of that drive 2,3,4,10 years after then last time it's been plugged in?
I'd at least put them in RAID for some redundancy. I guess it depends on how valuable the data is to you.
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