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How To: Prepare for Hard Disk Crash

Friday, April 18 2008 - , , - 0 comments

ExtremeTech has an ok article on how to prepare for the death of a hard drive.  Here are the highlights:

  • Use "misson-critical" parts if machine is "misson-critical" (ie: RAID 1-mirroring)
  • Lower the AutoSave time increments.
  • If there's no AutoSave available, save your work often.
  • Perform nightly backups.
  • Check the integrity of the backups often (I once had to restore from a backup, only to find the backup corrupt).
  • Use a backup battery system.

My work machine adhears to most of the suggestions.  Time to find a better backup routine.  Thank god for source control.

There's also an article about what to do after a hard disk crash.