Thanks folks for the input. To my dismay, you folks have confirmed what I thought
1) NAS/RAID is not a viable soln (even if it were I to do it for live drives, and do less frequent backups 1 per year.
2) Comments on LaCie drives, I agree. Thanks.
3) Online/cloud storage. Novel concept..Unfortunately, I don’t trust them.
4) Harddrive spare. I think that’s what I’ll do.
5) I’ll also continue to burn stuff onto DVD’s as a backup of backup. I use Nero backup, which writes the files in normal format to DVD’s. I’m leary of DVD’s or CD’s for the long term (+10 years). I’ve taken a few of my original CD’s out that I burned back in 1998.. I slightly flexed them a bit, and the metalic layer pealed off, rendering the disk completely useless (except for a drink coaster).
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