i run on a mac brand new about three months old and i hear horrible stories about computers fkn up and the person loses everything... so i was wondering what are the odds of computers losing memory and should i buy a external drive?
the odds of you loosing memory aren't that bad. the odds of it becoming destroyed for some reason or another are a bit higher though. http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index.php...d=4285499&# as for data backup.. DO IT. it costs a few thousand dollars to recover data off a dead drive. it costs... not nearly so much to have a backup of your vital data and it's a lot less of a headache. it's... common everywhere. Apple gets their hardware from the same places Dell does, hardware manufactures like foxconn and ASUS for the motherboards, and seagate, WD samsung and the like for harddrives. Apple doesn't really make systems that are THAT much more reliable than say dell, they just have THAT MUCH better marketing. FYI the OS doesn't really cause hardware failure, perhaps disc failure could be related to disc thrashing, but ehh I've got page filing disabled on my system(under both windows and linux) so I don't even have to think of that likelihood of an external drive failing after one year... 2% likelihood of an internal drive failing after one year... 1% likelihood of both failing after one year... .02% likelihood of an external drive failing after 20 years... 30% likelihood of an internal drive failing after 20 years... 20% likelihood of both failing after 20 years... 6% numbers pulled out of my ass but as you see the greater the number of copies you have the much safer you are.
depends how you threat them i've had 2 external hdd's in 1 year just because i dropped them by accident, if you just leave them lying they will stay good.. just buy a external and back up to it daily so you never lose data.
also downloading things won't cause harddrive failure savve for the disc thrasher virus type of things, but those are all but non existent. I could take a completely unprotected windows box using windows XP, no service packs and using IE 6, go to 99999999 porn sites and download everything in sight, and download who knows what from warez channels and I still wouldn't have one. might need to reinstall windows but that'd be it.
depends how much you want too backup, if you want too backup the whole OS, you are better of with a external hdd, if i remember well, freecom had free backup software with external hdd's but if you only want too backup some files once a while you can better have a rewriteable DVD so you can burn it.
Remember a backup isn;t a backup unless it's on at least 2 different places. Putting data on a different partition then windows, won't protect you if the drive dies. Use your common sense and put it on a seperate drive as well. Even dvd's could help you out of a sticky situation.
