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Keyser Söze

On 6/25/15 5:27 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:12:21 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Greg, I've seen lots of good comments on that razor "dollar club" then you have Netflix a
Taking on the DVD industry too...

CDs and DVDs are going the way of the 8 track.
Digital content is going to be delivered online and they really want
you to store it in the cloud. In this regard, I agree with Hillary. I
want my data spinning on my disk drives (or whatever media we will be
using next in the 21st century)
I have not jumped on the SSD bandwagon with Harry yet. I just don't
like the fact that they tell you these things have a finite life
(10,000 writes). On a system drive, that might happen pretty fast.
(something like the page files)
Disk drives are so cheap these days that there is no reason not to
have plenty of backups.
I have made a backup machine, another PC that is a mirror of the one I
use regularly. I hook it up and synchronize all of the "data" drives
once a week or so after doing virus scans from a couple of programs.If
I have a catastrophic failure, I will be back going in minutes.

Neither of my computers with SSDs, nor our iPhones with SSDs have
hiccuped...yet. But we also back up to an assortment of external drives,
a server and two separate "clouds."