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    Iomega Silver 250GB Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by torvok, Jun 25, 2007.

  1. torvok

    torvok Notebook Geek

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    I just bought one of these from Dell to for 100$ to store all of my music, videos, and pictures. I only have 80gigs in my laptop so Ive moved all my music over there and deleted them off my laptop. I leave my laptop on and this external hd on almost 24/7 so i can play music off it. Should i be worried that it will crash of something and i lose all my data!? Do these things overheat? Cuz they dont have a fan!
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    torvok, Jun 25, 2007
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    Wingsbr NBR Decepticon NBR Reviewer

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    External hard drives, like any other hard drive, can crash and it is normal for them to get warm. With that being said, I would recommend that you at least burn backup cd's or dvd's just in case something happens. I back up about once every 2 months or so to cdr or dvdr depending on how much data I added during the timeframe.
     
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  3. torvok

    torvok Notebook Geek

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    I never worried about backing up my stuff when it was on my laptop's hard drive... any reason i should worri now that its on the external? do they break more easily? Ive never came across a hard drive failure b4 on any of my laptop's or old PCs.
     
    torvok, Jun 28, 2007
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