[Leaplist] Hard Drive Formatting

[Robin (Bartow FL)]

> Ladies and Gents,
> 
> I desire to have a  Hard Drive that is external forvbackup and use sparingly as in case of using it as Archives. All hard drives come formatted FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS ( I may be wrong in this statement). Would these Hard Drives be a proper medium for my use?
> 
> Ram

I use hard drives for backup purposes.
pro
 . lots of space
 . automated/unattended backups
con
 . initial cost is higher than CD/DVD media
 . don't drop your hard drive

The investment in hard drive media for archiving has proved very cost effective for me in just time alone.

As far as format is concerned, any time you change the structure of data you increase risk of data corruption. Imaging a partition from one drive to another is extremely easy with a live CD.

You may find the last paragraph of the following page helpful
http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2007-June/001847.html

/robin