This thread began discussing backing up and I thought I would just comment. I still run all conventional hard drives both IDE and SCSI. I have always kept full copies of my computers Workbench on a ZIP disk. I have them all. Generally I have Workbench on a second Volume or disk and if there is an issue I just format the dodgy partition and simply copy back my current version of the Workbench. I also have my Amigas networked to PCs and have for some considerable time kept full copies of archives of my Amiga hard drives on PC disks and burnt to CDs. All of which can be seen and read by my Amigas.
I still await the dreaded day when my hard drives fail, but hasn't happened yet. I still have XT drives on 590s running.
The truth is I very rarely ever need to reinstall anything. I dunno, it just keeps working. Amiga files being so small it takes no time to get all of the Workbench onto a USb stick or Passport. The trick is the networking cus once you have an 'out' doesn't matter how slow the mule is they always turn up in an emergency.
Maybe one day I'll use these new fangled flash card thingys. Or not. Probably not. I have like a cupboard full of hard drives and a drawer full of 2.5" drives. I like the sound of a hard drive, I can sense the machine is alive when I hear the disk activity. I can read a lot into whats happening on a machine by the sounds they make. Just doesn't feel right, camera memory in a computer. The one A2000 I have gives out a wonderful trill noise from the hard drive when she boots. The A1200 has always made a reset kinda churn just after boot and the Viper gives out a single barely audable ding as it settles in for the day.
Just my thoughts.
