MacBook back-up necessity
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From: Mark on 27 Jun 2010 07:15 On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:59:31 +0100, Hugh Browton wrote (in article <0001HW.C84B8E1303E7F7DEB02919BF(a)news.individual.net>): > > Dear All � > > Just had the second MacBook this week through Mac Doctor Towers needing a new > internal HD. First one's data was entirely un recoverable (Head crash between > the platters - ouch). Waiting to see about this morning's. Both Seagate 120 > GB drives. (I've done perhaps 10 in the past year). > > If you have a MacBook, you ARE backing up your data regularly, aren't you? > Any particular iteration of MacBook? Were they all Seagates? My early '09 MacBook is a 120GB Hitachi. Been thinking about an upgrade for a while.. Mark
From: Rowland McDonnell on 27 Jun 2010 16:55 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > > > If you have a MacBook, you ARE backing up your data regularly, aren't > > you? > > Those first five words aren't needed. I don't bother backing up my books, you know. Some forms of data storage are pretty reliable. If I were *really* paranoid, I'd be printing to clay... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Woody on 27 Jun 2010 17:35 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > > > > > If you have a MacBook, you ARE backing up your data regularly, aren't > > > you? > > > > Those first five words aren't needed. > > I don't bother backing up my books, you know. I would. I lost loads in a fire once. That is probably why I don't care much about books these days. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Hugh Browton on 28 Jun 2010 05:41 On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:12:51 +0100, zoara wrote (in article <2009065149299275938.477832me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>): > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > >> If you have a MacBook, you ARE backing up your data regularly, aren't >> you? > > Those first five words aren't needed. > True enough, but especially important for MacBook owners of a certain age [sic]! Seagate drives of that era especially prone. -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) "The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)
From: Hugh Browton on 28 Jun 2010 05:46
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:15:39 +0100, Mark wrote (in article <0001HW.C84CF16B0001CF76B01AD9AF(a)eu.Usenet-News.net>): > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:59:31 +0100, Hugh Browton wrote > (in article <0001HW.C84B8E1303E7F7DEB02919BF(a)news.individual.net>): > >> >> Dear All � >> >> Just had the second MacBook this week through Mac Doctor Towers needing a >> new > >> internal HD. First one's data was entirely un recoverable (Head crash >> between > >> the platters - ouch). Waiting to see about this morning's. Both Seagate 120 >> GB drives. (I've done perhaps 10 in the past year). >> >> If you have a MacBook, you ARE backing up your data regularly, aren't you? >> > Any particular iteration of MacBook? Were they all Seagates? My early '09 > MacBook is a 120GB Hitachi. Been thinking about an upgrade for a while.. > JB much better at the specifics than I. He'll be along shortly. -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) "The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002) |