On 5/21/2014 5:55 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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AlDrake typed:
On 5/21/2014 3:29 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2014 03:49:34 -0400, AlDrake
wrote:
So in the long run none of these backup applications are even
worth the money, time and trouble I guess. But that all part of who
I am. I have shelves of toys I never use after unwrapping them.

When you clone your drive(s), you need an additional drive for every
drive you wish to clone, or simply an additional drive for every
clone you wish to make. For many people, that gets expensive. When
you create a backup, you can typically put multiple backups on a
single drive. So it's a trade-off, as are many things in life. If
cost isn't an
issue, go ahead and clone. If the budget is tight, get a big drive
and put multiple backups/images on it, with the knowledge that
you've saved a chunk of cash but if it ever comes down to having to
use one of those backups, you'll have to restore it first. The
trade-off is time versus money.

I have so many drives that are smaller than the ones I use at any
given moment. They used to get moved to the second drive for
"whatever". Since I switched over to SSDs I have gone from 128G to
256G and now I'm at Crucial M550 512G so I can use an older one to
clone to. I lost count of all the drives with somewhere over a dozen
SSDs alone. I have 1,2,3 and 4 TB external drives. I keep several
SSDs in USB3 external cases. I can keep one with me as it's smaller
than my wallet which has been getting smaller also.

Boy we sure do many things the same way. Although I have delayed longer
on my older machines to SSD and I just started recently. And they are
going to all get 120GB SSD I believe for now. I was a bit concern about
an SSD on this machine in particular, since it also has a TV tuner
connected and does a far amount of TV recording sometimes. Although
monitoring the lifetime writes, I don't think I'll hit the limit for at
least 10 years. Plus it won't be long before this one is cloned and
replaced with another SSD anyway. Maybe 256GB next time around.

I can't see myself going larger than the Crucial M550 512GB but I'm
waiting to see if they start using faster chips than the Micron.

You have an advantage because they're much cheaper then when I started
purchasing SSDs. I put one in my ASUS Eee PC and at the time the SSD
cost more than the netbook.