Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)

Le 23-11-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :

On 23 Nov 2024 05:10:17 GMT, vallor wrote:
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You must be joking.

With you, he's in good company.

Every couple of years just buy another and copy everything
from old to new.

Agreed, for most people a hard drive is well enough. Now, there is no
need to change the hard drive every couple of years. A hard drive can be
use longer than that. And, for a real user (ie: not like you who can
only try to compile your kernel), to just save his data/work every
couple of year, he'll lose a lot in case of issue with his hard drive.

The copy of the hard drive is not a good way to take care of what is
important on a computer because:
- the OS can be installed easily, so it's useless to save it,
- the documents which never change can be stored like that, so OK,
- the documents which change should be saved with their history.

So depending on what someone is doing with his computer different kinds
of backup must be done.

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