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Originally Posted by Dean
The best reasonable option for private parties is external storage that matches the capacity of their total internal storage of all their machines plus any archival storage such as CD/DVDs smaller external drives, etc. they use.
This gives them 2 copies of everything, one of which they can grab and run with in case of a fire, etc.
If you want to do even better, you can 2X or 3X the external storage and always have one off-site.
There are plenty of good manual and automated products/processes to keep everything in sync.
I have 2 mirrored 2.2 terabyte servers with internal RAID 5 disks. I keep threatening to move one to my Dad's in Gardnerville and setup the sync accross the Internet, but haven't done it.
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I just don't want to use my system HDDs on future computers for data storage. There are some good reasons for keeping your important programs (OS, etc.) on the C: drive and everything else separate. You guys have all done this before. I would rather create a central, mirrored data storage that I can plug computers into as I feel like. Sort of a movement back to dumb terminals but without the downsides of old mainframe stups.