I just want to add my 2 cents about warrenties.
No drive manufacturer is going to warrenty your DATA, only the drive hardware
itself. It's up to YOU to have a copy of your critical data somewhere else in
case the drive ever fails.
I have been very lucky -- I have not lost a drive myself, but I tend to upgrade
every two-three years. In the shack, I use Iomega Automatic Backup to save
copies of my logbook to a ZIP disk every time a file changes. In the home
office, I do a nightly automated backup to an identical hard drive. All of
this started, incidentally, in the last year or so. I had been living on the
edge up until now.
There's a line from the movie "Tommy Boy" about guarantees that I won't repeat
here. If you've see the movie, you know what I'm talking about.
73 - Jim AD1C
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