Re: House on Fire... Do You Rescue the Computer?
D from BC wrote:
Would you save your computer during a fire?
If you see this as a likely occurance, you need a laptop and a docking
bay
or a desktop computer with an easy-remove type drive bay
where you can just snatch out the HDD.
If you have actually done a recent BACKUP[1] of your data (NOT a
mirror),
loss of the box will be an annoyance, but not really significant.
The mention of insurance in this thread is noteworthy.
Unless you *just* bought the box, the replacement will be better.
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[1] A "backup" is *not* a backup until it is OFF-SITE.
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