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LaCie or Maxtor External Drive - Which to purchase?

May 26, 2005 2:00AM PDT

Bought new Dell Dimension 8400 with 250 GB hard drive and XP Professional.
Thinking of purchasing a 250 GB or 300 GB external drive for backup. I like what I have read about the Dantz Retrospect 7 Professional software. Will definitely automate backup. Which drive would you purchase? LaCie or Maxtor?

Appreciate you helping me out!

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Not a backup.
May 26, 2005 6:38AM PDT

That's just a copy without the needed measures to insure you don't lose it all.

Proof? Just read the heart stopping stories in these forums.

Is a second copy enough? Then you're OK, but don't count on it to replace a proper backup.

Bob

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Not a backup?
Jul 13, 2005 3:52AM PDT

Can you explain that statement? (I'm very much a computing novice.) I thought that's exactly what these hard drives were supposed to do. If not, what else do I need to do?