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How To Store Internal Hard Drives?
mike writes "I have been ripping all my movies and TV shows for easy viewing through a media PC. Because I would rather not rip everything again I'm looking for a simple backup solution. I'm considering a hard drive dock and several internal hard drives to use as 'disks' to back things up every once in a while but I don't know what the best way to store internal drives would be in the meantime. Could they sit together in any empty box and be OK, or would a number of externals be worth the slightly higher cost with fewer worries about storing them in the meantime?"
Why don't you try a box and use magnets as packing peanuts? Be sure to leave them in a hot, humid place, like a shower, and never every spin them up
Dry, cool, and individually placed in anti-static bags, just be sure to spin them up every so often.
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1) create
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make sure your closet doesn't overheat.
Nope. An unpowered hard-drive has MUCH greater tolerance to temperature than a powered one. Unless you are planning on keeping them powered up in your closet, that is... :-)
Best Regards,
Durval Menezes.
I have never met a computer that didn't like me.
cool...
after a failure in a RAID 0 , you have 0 copies of data.
after a failure in a RAID 1 , you have 1 copy of your data
no wonder RAID 50 is so good!!
You label your books? What are you? Some kind of librarian?
Ook!
Plug it in at your mom's house, rsync your local fileserver with that one every night at 4am.
But what happens if the fire spreads upstairs? With heat rising, that's likely to happen.
warning: This post is likely to contain gobs of dripping sarcasm. Consume at your own risk.
And you know that there are no backups somewhere how?
They image someone's "mental state" onto a drive and obviously there's no backup at that moment, but then he files it into the library or whatever and then backups are made.
I know this is what happens because I just made it up.
[citation needed]