[quote=svelte]i just use external usb drives. i have four for a total of 4 TB hooked up to my computer. i have another 4 TB for backups that i do monthly before i disconnect and move offsite. the beauty of this is that i simply move the usb to another computer (my laptop, wife’s computer, etc) when i need to, or when a computer goes belly up. i don’t store any files on the computers themselves…[/quote]
I feel the same way, svelte. I’ve had computer crashes before where I had saved what I was working on (for convenience until I finished it) in the HD and lost it (even if the rest of the case was in a separate HD).
In the past few years, NOTHING has been saved to my HD, EVER …
Even the cache and cookies, etc, are constantly cleared out.
Windows OS’s are so fickle. My experience has been that they could crash unexpectedly at any time (not so with MAC OS). Therefore, my personal (and professional) files will NEVER be mixed in with Windows OS and its programs … ever.
