[quote=svelte]i haven’t had a single crash with win 7 after running it 10 months. i have had 2 or 3 freezes, but i have attributed that to hw issues (maybe incorrectly, i don’t know).
i do know that for the mountain of money i save buying hw and sw that is much much cheaper than apple or linux counterparts, i can put up with a few more problems and i’m not sure i even have more problems at this point. that’s just me.
i don’t use external usbs due to sw crashes but due to hard drive failures, which are much more devastating.[/quote]
HDD failures is the biggest reason why I don’t take care of my own back up. Although, I do have plan to put a RAID 5 on my main box, on top of the online back up. HDD failure is so much more devastating than SW crashes, like you said. SW crash and you just restart. HDD failure and your data is gone (unless you pay big bucks to try and recover the data from the platters, that’s not a guarantee either). I find external drives are even more prone to failures.
I agree on the price difference between PC and Mac as well. For the price difference, I can toss on a few more drives and run RAID 5, which gives you even more data protection.
