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Comment from Vicki Williams on 2007-12-29

2007-12-29T12:42:17Z

I've had one failure in the 15-20 years that I have owned a computer. That drive did fail during its first year.

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Comment from Ken Crook on 2007-03-31

2007-04-01T06:51:09Z

Bought a new HP Pavilion notebook and the hard disk died after only 5 months of use. HP shipped me a new one, but I wasted 3 days rebuilding everything. I now, as Leo, use Acronis TrueImage to backup my hard disk so next time my disk crashes or is trashed I'll save those wasted 3 days.

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Comment from Ann E. Hynes on 2007-03-31

2007-04-01T04:09:13Z

I just listened to the podcast on hard drive failure. Expensive, yes,to the tune of about $465. I wish I had known this sooner. Thank you for your newsletter. I'll keep reading!

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Comment from Gideon on 2007-03-30

2007-03-31T07:39:05Z

I think Google probably runs their hard discs pretty hard that way they get a better ROI. I doubt any of us are running HDs 24/7. From a HDs point of view you could easily think of 2 years work at Google being the equivalent of 5 years in a home or office environment.

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Comment from Michael Horowitz on 2007-03-30

2007-03-31T05:03:12Z

Acronis True Image can make image backups either from within Windows or outside Windows running from a bootable CD. I would only trust an image backup made from outside Windows, but that's me. The entire True Image v8 manual however was geared to backups from within Windows.

Recently I tried to make True Image backups from a boot CD on a machine without a PS/2 port. Despite being Linux, both v7 and v8 failed to detect the USB keyboard.

But my biggest gripe with True Image is that it can not make a true image. That is, it is incapable of doing the basic job of an imaging product, make a sector by sector copy. For details see http://www.computergripes.com/trueimage.html

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Comment from Gerald Malcolm on 2007-03-30

2007-03-31T03:09:47Z

7%-- I have had # failures in the last ywar. one only lasted 4 months--i back up full all the time.

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Comment from Louis Benn on 2007-03-26

2007-03-26T11:58:43Z

7%? That is Much higher than we have, we've been lucky i guess.
1 failure in 3 years. :)

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