Saved by the external drive!

[ScottS]

My computer crashed today...:thumbdown: yea it sucks, but im really happy I invested in 2 500GB hardrives to back up all my files.
Yea I did a bit of a happy dance.

 

[sabbath999]

That's the ticket!

 

[soylentgreen]

Did the main drive crash or the secondary? I never save anything of significance on my main drive for obvious reasons. Gotta run my new 1.5 TB NAS drive with RAID for back-up.

 

[jedithebomber]

Congratulations! Isn't it great that your posting this instead of "I lost all my data... cry cry cry." I hope more people learn about this. Now when you restore your computer, make sure you copy everything back so you have 2 copies again. Otherwise all you hard work could go down the drain when (yes I said when) your external fails.

And soylentgreen RAID is a great storage tool with limited recoverability, better than the average bear. Make sure you still keep 2 copies. I have seen way too many failed RAID arrays to really trust them unconditionally, no matter the configuration.

 

[Sideburns]

just cause it crashed...doesn't mean it's all gone...
what'd you do?

Also, RAID is pretty foolproof if you do RAID-1...unless all of the drives go down.