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<blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 3916814" data-attributes="member: 12966"><p>+1</p><p></p><p>I would also highly recommend using FW over USB, if the option is available. Few PCs will come with FW ports, however. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>If you're considering software for backup, check out the pricing on Ghost 12 right now ... with rebate, it's free! So you'll pay shipping/tax/whatever, but the cost is $0. And it's a well-supported product with enterprise-level reliability. The next best package for all-in-one backup and system recovery would probably be DataPro (but my personal experience with them has not been good; YMMV).</p><p></p><p>Network Attached Storage, or NAS, drives have become quite popular, since a free operating system such as Linux or FreeBSD can be put on them by the manufacturer and there are no licensing fees. Of if you have a spare machine sitting around, load it up with some cheap disk drives (BB had 320GB drives for $39 on Black Friday!) and install one of the pre-packaged NAS systems, such as FreeNAS. The FreeNAS software provides file serving capability for SMB/CIFS (Windows), AppleTalk, NFS, and even AFS with the right configuration. You can hook printers to it and do printer sharing as well. There are even more advantages ... such as putting FreeNAS on a bootable CD, your configuration on a write-protected floppy, and then never having to worry about viruses or any kind of operating system corruption!</p><p></p><p>Check out <a href="http://distrowatch.com/" target="_blank">http://distrowatch.com/</a> for a slew of free operating system downloads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azhrei_fje, post: 3916814, member: 12966"] +1 I would also highly recommend using FW over USB, if the option is available. Few PCs will come with FW ports, however. :( If you're considering software for backup, check out the pricing on Ghost 12 right now ... with rebate, it's free! So you'll pay shipping/tax/whatever, but the cost is $0. And it's a well-supported product with enterprise-level reliability. The next best package for all-in-one backup and system recovery would probably be DataPro (but my personal experience with them has not been good; YMMV). Network Attached Storage, or NAS, drives have become quite popular, since a free operating system such as Linux or FreeBSD can be put on them by the manufacturer and there are no licensing fees. Of if you have a spare machine sitting around, load it up with some cheap disk drives (BB had 320GB drives for $39 on Black Friday!) and install one of the pre-packaged NAS systems, such as FreeNAS. The FreeNAS software provides file serving capability for SMB/CIFS (Windows), AppleTalk, NFS, and even AFS with the right configuration. You can hook printers to it and do printer sharing as well. There are even more advantages ... such as putting FreeNAS on a bootable CD, your configuration on a write-protected floppy, and then never having to worry about viruses or any kind of operating system corruption! Check out [url]http://distrowatch.com/[/url] for a slew of free operating system downloads. [/QUOTE]
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