Re: For OS 10.4, do I need to have a 3rd party application do HD maintenance?
- From: Richard Maine <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:45:10 -0700
In article <1h0xfhm.16hrj53l38vy8N%neillmassello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
neillmassello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Neill Massello) wrote:
> Rowbotth <rowbotth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I paid my Mac dealer about
> > $120, and they managed to recover all.
>
> No hard drive maintenance program is a substitute for backup,
Amen. Disks fail. *ALL* disks will eventually fail, no matter what brand
or model. If you are lucky, the time to failure will be longer than the
time you use the disk.
$120 is nothing. I have known people who paid multiple thousands of
dollars for disk recovery. And sometimes disks are simply unrecoverable
even with infinite resources. When one person at work asked me about
options to recover data that he claimed was worth over $100,000, I
warned him that failing to do backups probably counted as criminal
negligence at that level. (It was government data on a contractor
system; the contractor was supposed to have backups, but apparently
didn't.).
Backups these days are cheap and easy for the amounts of data on home
systems (the multiple terabytes out at work is a bit more painful). That
wasn't always the case, but it is now. Buy an external firewire or USB
drive and get SuperDuper...Or any of several competing packages;
SuperDuper is what I'm using on my Mac at the moment and I got a paid
copy for its "smart update" feature.
.
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