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Jun 30, 2005, 09:58 AM
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Burned
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 29,275
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What do you use for data backup?
Please vote and discuss in here.
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Jun 30, 2005, 10:03 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Floatin'...
Posts: 4,958
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I got a DVD_RW drive. Don't have any blank media though 
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Jun 30, 2005, 10:05 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canadian lost in Norway
Posts: 552
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2nd Partition and an 2Gig Qauntum Fireball
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Jun 30, 2005, 10:20 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 5,170
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ive got a 2nd computer here that my family uses. almost nothing gets installed to it, and its got a 100gig HD on it so i just transfer everything to that.
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Jun 30, 2005, 10:34 AM
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boo!!!!
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Ft. Meyers, FL
Posts: 2,025
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i use a DVD burner and 2 200gb and a 160gb maxtor DM 10 HD for backup
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Jun 30, 2005, 11:09 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Wigan,UK
Posts: 585
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at the moment just a DVD-Writer till i get another HD.
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Jun 30, 2005, 11:27 AM
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Semper ubi sub ubi
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Toronto
Posts: 702
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short term: copy to second IDE harddrive
long term: burn to DVD
for serial #s, policy #s, etc for insurance/warranties I send an e-mail to myself -- that way if my house burns down its stored offsite. i may have lost the paper copies, but at least i have a record of the unique identifiers.
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Jun 30, 2005, 11:30 AM
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F.U.B.A.R.
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Southern California
Posts: 17,470
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anything i can use......DVD, CD, HDD, flash drive, etc.
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Jun 30, 2005, 11:41 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,802
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I use a 250 gig Firewire HD... But I never need anything that badly that I burn them on DVD!
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Jun 30, 2005, 12:47 PM
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At Your Service...
Join Date: May 2002
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 3,588
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External Seagate 160G Firewire/USB hard drive, about once every month...
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Jun 30, 2005, 12:52 PM
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watching 1080i
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: April 13th 2029
Posts: 19,801
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CD, getting a DVD soon though..
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Jun 30, 2005, 01:03 PM
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Avril Fan
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: somewhere in colombia, okok, bogotá city :p
Posts: 1,252
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CD, I should get a DVD-writer but im waiting for next gen (i had DVD already thou)
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Oblivion ftw, wonder if there's a MMO verison of it :o
WTPlay NVW2 -_-
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Jun 30, 2005, 01:16 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 70
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i used my dads external maxtor disk 120 gb for backups and stuff and to store stuff but it crashed, the only thing it does now is beeping so im f*cked =P
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Jun 30, 2005, 01:26 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: California
Posts: 4,180
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dvd drive for sure  i used to have a cd drive and it would take soooo long and id have like 20 different cd's and now i can use 1 or 2 dvd's to backup all the stuff that i need 
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Jun 30, 2005, 01:29 PM
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DH's Resident Cat Lover
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Biggleswade, UK
Posts: 836
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I use a combination of a second Hard Drive with a CD writer drive, I shall upgrade to a DVD recorder when needs be, until then Im happy 
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