I thought about the option you described and the victims of brushfires in
California and hurricanes in Florida and the gulf coast crossed my mind. If
the cops started to drive around the neighborhood and announce on their PA
system that a major disaster was imminent and that we needed to leave our
homes in five minutes and either drive away or board a bus at the end of the
block to go to a safe location, I don't want to be unscrewing hard drives
from my computer or fiddling with drive cases and adapter kits. all I would
need to do is unplug the power cable and USB cord and put my drive in my
suitcase or backpack, board the bus to safety, and wait out the disaster.
If my home is destroyed, I can quickly access all my data by plugging the
drive into essentially any computer. I realize that external drives are
more expensive but they offer more flexibility and universality than other
solutions.
Kelly
Thanks for all the info and advice , Kelly. Instead of getting an external
hd, I might get a USB hard drive adaptor that will let me use any hd. I'll
also check out SmartSync Pro. I'm glad it's shareware. I hope it works
with any drive.
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