Time to change a 6 year old external drive?
- Thread starter gohal
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The downside of having only a single backup, whether the drive is 1 day old or 10 yrs old, is that you will be without a backup when that drive dies until you get a new drive and create a new backup.
If that backup drive is still serving it's purpose, would suggest you get a 2nd drive and use it to create a bootable clone backup with either Superduper! or CarbonCopyCloner.
If that backup drive is still serving it's purpose, would suggest you get a 2nd drive and use it to create a bootable clone backup with either Superduper! or CarbonCopyCloner.
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Like how long is a piece of string?
Whilst it works great. Now it has heard you are thinking of replacing it, get ready.........
Whilst it works great. Now it has heard you are thinking of replacing it, get ready.........
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