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<blockquote data-quote="morerice" data-source="post: 1639529" data-attributes="member: 341632">BackupsYou are most welcome! I wasted A LOT of time trying to figure out why my computer was corrupting my data and crashing. I am glad that others are benefiting and learning from my experiences.One of the best lessons I have learned from having these computer problems is the necessity of LOTS of recent backups. Bad RAM can corrupt your data that written to hard drives rending them pretty useless. In my late 2009 iMac 27&quot; the main internal boot disk a 256 Gb SSD and a second internal 1Tb hard drive. I use 3 2Tb external portable hard drives as backups. One is always plugged in with 2 partitions: one doing hourly TimeMachine backups and the other a clone of the internal SSD. For the others, I partitioned them as well into 2 partitions, 256GB and 1750Gb. I have been using SuperDuper! to make clones of my internal SSD and HD about every 1-2 weeks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="morerice, post: 1639529, member: 341632"] [b]Backups[/b] You are most welcome! I wasted A LOT of time trying to figure out why my computer was corrupting my data and crashing. I am glad that others are benefiting and learning from my experiences. One of the best lessons I have learned from having these computer problems is the necessity of LOTS of recent backups. Bad RAM can corrupt your data that written to hard drives rending them pretty useless. In my late 2009 iMac 27" the main internal boot disk a 256 Gb SSD and a second internal 1Tb hard drive. I use 3 2Tb external portable hard drives as backups. One is always plugged in with 2 partitions: one doing hourly TimeMachine backups and the other a clone of the internal SSD. For the others, I partitioned them as well into 2 partitions, 256GB and 1750Gb. I have been using SuperDuper! to make clones of my internal SSD and HD about every 1-2 weeks. [/QUOTE]

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