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Best Solution for storing files from a real old Partioned iMac...
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1699577"><p>All storage is ephemeral. All of it can be destroyed, misplaced, overcome by events or technology. What I have done is to put my family pictures on multiple hard drives so that if one dies, I have backups. Nothing is in just ONE place. And as technology changes, I move along with it, moving my pictures from CDs to DVDs to thumb drives to SSDs. And I don't assume that putting them on a drive and putting the drive in a drawer is "permanent" storage. Bits fade from disks, chips, DVDs and CDs. Data needs to be refreshed periodically, so even on the drives I'm using now I move the pictures every few years, just to refresh the writing of them and to make sure they are still readable.</p><p></p><p>As for moving data, if you have two drives and attach the both to the same computer, you can move data between them directly. Yes, the data transits the computer, but it doesn't get written to the internal HD of the computer in that transit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1699577"] All storage is ephemeral. All of it can be destroyed, misplaced, overcome by events or technology. What I have done is to put my family pictures on multiple hard drives so that if one dies, I have backups. Nothing is in just ONE place. And as technology changes, I move along with it, moving my pictures from CDs to DVDs to thumb drives to SSDs. And I don't assume that putting them on a drive and putting the drive in a drawer is "permanent" storage. Bits fade from disks, chips, DVDs and CDs. Data needs to be refreshed periodically, so even on the drives I'm using now I move the pictures every few years, just to refresh the writing of them and to make sure they are still readable. As for moving data, if you have two drives and attach the both to the same computer, you can move data between them directly. Yes, the data transits the computer, but it doesn't get written to the internal HD of the computer in that transit. [/QUOTE]
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