Had to format my computer.

[Eric Perry]

Yep, the likelihood of one of those drives failing is pretty low as it doesn't get accessed as much. Besides the extra cost of the drives I think the only downsides are more power consumption and a little more heat into you computer. Not that big of a deal.

I guess we can say, separate drives are better, but more expensive. A single partitioned drive is a good, less expensive alternative if keeping your data intact is important to you.

+1!

 

[Baryonyx]

My little brother had to reformat his computer yesterday after he broke it somehow.

 

[MJ5150]

Hold on, I'm confused. The mobo was bad, or the drive? If the mobo died, that doesn't mean you hard drive is toast.

-Mike

 

[Mark Wilson]

Maybe you should look into getting and external HDD for backups. I know I said it already, but it really is a good investment if you have a lot of media files. And they aren't too pricey nowadays either. I got both of my WD's at BestBuy, 320 GB for like 90 bucks each. And I'd imagine Amazon sells them for cheap.

Yea, I'm gonna be looking into them. They're cheap today at Future Shop.

BTW, Mark.
Like my new hat??

Love it. Jerk

Sorry to hear that, Mark. In my case, I always keep my valuable data in different partitions and also have installed a second hard disk which is an exact copy of the first, thanks to this program.

Thanks Alvaro, I'll check it out.

Hold on, I'm confused. The mobo was bad, or the drive? If the mobo died, that doesn't mean you hard drive is toast.

-Mike

To be honest, I have no idea. My brother and Dad are the computer guys. The computer just wouldn't start up.
No biggie though. I needed to seriously format. I'm over it.