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Lots of stuff to mull over. I know the pricing isn't ideal and that's why I didn't just go out and do it yet. With the hard drive pricing issue, my current harddrive cost $70 last March; the exact same one is now $240. Granted the $ / GB is probably still in favor of disks, but that kind of price increase just makes me shake my head and leads to me thinking like this. Specifically for the amount of data I actually want to make absolutely sure I have reliable back up for, including the idea of a portable drive to keep it in a safe keeping place. I already have have an older machine I use to back up too, but it's power use and case size and noise just won't cut it for constant use. I have been bothering with CDs and DVD backups, but it's getting too cumbersome now. Thought of Bluray discs, but again, just too cumbersome for me. The NAS would be my 2nd (and technically 3rd and possibly 4th) back up routine, depending on the number of drives.

RE: Western Digital's personal storage options. I actually looked at these 1 - 2 years ago but was just never sold on them. I've still not read all that great reviews about them (newegg or otherwise) and the posts here are about the first good ones I've ever seen. The drives they come with have never impressed me, but maybe they are more reliable with just back ups instead of using them for constant access (DVRing type stuff, multiple 100s of gigs of writing and replacing on a pretty constant basis). I've kept my eye on a couple of other boxes, but the prices of the drives still bug me. Hell, I went ahead and bought a complete system awhile back just because the price of the drive in the system was cheaper than the cost of the whole system.

I've been burned by all other formats throughout the years including using external harddrive enclosures of yore. I'm getting pretty good about retrieving most of the stuff on the formats that die, but I'm tired of wasting my time like that. I've been lucky, lately knockonwood, with not losing the actual important stuff, but that's because I do have multiple back up routines currently. They are just time consuming.

I was really hoping the SSDs would drop heavily since the summer, but they haven't decreased as much as I had hoped. That, and I just want to play with one because it's still new before the next new thing comes out

Maybe I'll try to find some really really cheap 500GB or even lower SATA drives and whatever NAS system is the most reliable "soon".


But thanks for the insights. I think I'll avoid the SSD as back up only for now.

This forum use to be fun

Yes, I know I shouldn't.........

The pricing I've seen was $160? for a 120GB (or it was $140 for 160GB, I can't remember), with lower capacity ones costing more per GB.

My current rig has an external slide in connector on the chasis, hence the only reason I was even considering one if it was treated like plug and play when I wanted to use it.

I'll check out your links later on. The NAS boxes I were looking at didn't come with drives, and never quite fit the mold with what I wanted in terms copy and LAN speeds, and were upwards of $200 - 400. These were multi bay units, and wasn't sure if I wanted to go that route just yet anyway.

Also, my main concern was whether SSD was "more reliable" than how reliable most drives are nowadays, especially with a lot of read/writing to disk. The 120 - 160 GB is plenty for the stuff I actually care about currently, I'm just looking for the extra safety net of "more reliable". Unless SSDs aren't, of course.

I'm wanting another backup option. With the current prices of harddrives, I'm not willing to go ahead with a NAS setup (yet) but will eventually when that supply/pricing comes back inline with what it should be.

So I've been looking at SSDs since the prices have gotten a little better (especially compared to hard drive prices) and their performance. However, having never used one, I'm curious to the idea of using them as a back up drive only. Are they treated like plug and play? Is their reliablility (disk integrity / life span) been proven yet for this application?

The NAS is something I want eventually, but the idea of a very fast and (I'm guessing) portable hard drive is compelling, especially if I'm able to store it off site as insurance.

Or am I way off?

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Reminding myself that today is (now) my billing date. I have to wait till later in the day to check for whatever it is I'm deemed worthy to be rewarded with today, but anyone want to take bets on this as actually happening?

Update for my own benefit: Around 4PM EST I did not have any points added to my account. I checked again around 930PM for the hell of it and did have the increase. If I were to guess, by end of business PST time is when they put the points through on your billing date? No new reward tokens though.

One of the rare times I wish I had this channel

You can delete the power from the power WINDOW and the timer will immediately expire. Deleting from the tray retains the power / timer.

I can't believe all of you are missing the bigger picture!

"Fly to heaven?"

Calling it here: Moon / space content in January 2012. Steel Canyon and Port Oakes get their construction projects finally finished (and insanely over planned budget).

Maybe he's already dead and we all see dead people?

Here's the misdirection - Statesman, the persona, dies. Cole just changes his name and costume, probably to something like Freedom Man, and gets a little edgier.

Or he changes his name to Bastion. And then Citadel goes all @#$#@$#@$% @%$#%@# and terrorizes Talos with his fuming rampage.

Ironically(?) they'll tell us who will die in their much-touted build up Signature Story Arc, but won't tell us more about resolving our issues here?

For the extended, uncut, director's version of the traveling scenes.

For a behind-the-scenes look into what, exactly, the teen couple are doing *all day long* and why the flatfoots are helpless to actually do anything to them

For a do-it-yourself instructional video to make your own robe with giant hand prints on it

To find out what really happens to the little girl. And dog.



Countless reasons actually. I can't wait!

If it wasn't for this "discussion" thread, I wouldn't even *remember* I was supposed to get Paragon points on some magical date because they still can't be reliably counted on to actually show up.

(apologies to my past English teachers)