External Hardrive

[roystheboy]

Hi i am looking to back up my PC a full back up everything that is on my PC Inclueding programs, windows, films, games, there are so many out there its so confuseing which one to choose could some kind person recomend a really good one cheers take care best regards

[racin-snake]

i have two a 360 seagate and a iomega 1 tb
both are sturdy backups

[roystheboy]

thanks will they do a cmpleat backup cheers

[racin-snake]

oh yesssss good units one is a usb only no external power
the other (iomega) is desk based with fan for cooling needs external power both cost around 80 gbp
backup for the whole system is esential as i have just fond out to my discomfort

[roystheboy]

thanks a lot could you give me the site where I can get one of these hope you dont mind cheers take care best regards

[racin-snake]

maplins ...and tesco direct worth a go

[NZBrakelathes]

Just order a new desk top box basic thing - what or how should I run back ups etc? I have business program and data etc - A suggestions on how I can try and protect against hard drive failure? Mind you never happened to me - YET but it is possible yer?

[dik]

The easiest automatic way is to get another hdd identical to the one in your pc (assuming it's a desktop pc) and set it to run in mirrored raid, then pc will mirror all data to other drive, and all read and write operations are done simultaneously to both drives. If one ever fails you lose nothing, buy another drive put it in and windows re mirrors it. With external hdd you can use acronis true image to periodically or continuously back up