BaZoon

i burn all my dvd:s but i have a 200gb mediadrive and a 200gb game/insallalionfiles drive... 10gb in partition for system... and.... a 300gb external drive......... so i guess it will do for now

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Sonata

I voted DVD Burner but I use Power Quest Deploy Centre to keep x64 and 32 bit images on my second hard drive. When it takes my fancy I re-image my computer using boot floppies in a couple of minutes. I keep meaning to burn a copy of these images to DVD.

MIG-31

DVD RW all the time......works fine with enough storage space for my needs.

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El Kapitano

250Gb SATA Drive as storage, DVD for Archival and 1Gb flashdrive or various sizes of SD Cards for transport.

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riles9262

I just use a couple other partitions for important stuff. Now that I have a dvd rw, I will probably start using that.

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Ferret_Style

Short term copy to other computer and second compy to backup internal drive. Long term DVD's kept in safe .... 3 months of images from when my daughter was orn 12 week early i keep those really safe!

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Sargentwhitey

I usually don't backup, but since my secondary drive is larger then my Boot drive, I use that when I need to. Like I will soon, since I'm moving over to PCIe, rather cheaply too.

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BWX

Yeah I do that too.. Always have actually.. Forgot to mention that.

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Zelig

I also use a combo of slower backup hard drives and DVDs for my backups...

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Lelisevis

Combination of DVD Writer and 40GB IDE HDD.

Interested to know whats brought about this bizarre choice of polls?

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Falstaff

external all the way.....

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gadabout

I have 4 internal HD's. So I use my 30GB for Windows, 80GB for games, 60GB for all of my files, and my 40GB I have partitioned into 2-20GB, one for WinXP64 and the other for "let's test this OS".

I am looking to get a 200GB network HD to put all my files, so my GF and I can access all the files in one location.

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The_Neon_Cowboy

5 1/2' Floppies!
.... J/K!

Useally CDRs and DVDRs, I also some times use a secondary partition

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Tipstaff

I primarily use a DVD writer for permanent backup, and the external hard drive for temp backup.

Here's a question I would like to ask everybody: what programs do you guys use along with these devices?

For me,
- hard drive backups (images or cloning) = I usually use Ghost or Acronis (I find Acronis the best for NTFS spanned images, and SATA cloning as Ghost can mess up real fast. One thing about Ghost is that it if you clone a Dynamic partitioned drive it will undo it, and turn the partition back into a Basic one.. very useful as trying to convert a Dynamic disk back to a Basic one, or importing a Dynamic disk can have some rather.. um.. bad consequences if it messes up)
- email/favs/settings/specific folders/misc = Genie Backup Manager Pro
- straight file copying (folders/files) = Total Commander (newer version Norton Commander)

Edit: should have mentioned I use Nero for backing up data to DVD.

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toddsmack2k

BenQ DVD writer!

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