Recent content by daveake

The issue here is that is the power supply goes pop in the wrong way it can take those hard drives with it. You'd be safer with an external drive for backups. The next step after that is an offsite backup which will protect against a fire or say a lightning strike taking out the PC and...

Re "overkill": Absolutely. I learnt to be paranoid when I lost a bunch of scanned photos years ago. I had everything on 2 drives which I thought was safe. One day I was out of disk space for something or other, so I cleared one of those two drives temporarily. The other drive must have...