Topic: Do recover programs eat up your P/C usage?

[Electric Eye]

My P/C has a program called Recover Pro, and it copies restore points from time to time, then when it is full it reminds me that I need to clean it out.

Are these programs a must? Do the pros outweigh the cons with using such a program?

I do not know much about programs or P/Cs, but IMHO why bother with having this program around? I mean, if your P/C gets ATFU (Ate the fluck up) then you will need to redo everything from scratch programwise, right?

[Just plain old Punisher]

Depends on what you're recovering.

There isn't a whole lot on my computer that I can't stand to lose. Some vacation photos, maybe some .mp3's and assorted documents. So I usually just back them up to a second hard drive or a CD-ROM.

[Javora]

I used to use Norton Ghost and it did save my butt once but for the most part I think this stuff just eats up system resources.  What I do now is back up everything to a spare hard drive and disconnect that hard drive from the system and put it somewhere.  This way the hard drive is not constantly spinning and burning itself out.

If you like these programs and I do think they can be useful.  Then what I would do is install the program, do a back up and save that back up on another hard drive.  Then uninstall the program or disable it during normal use.

[Electric Eye]

Thanks for all the info. I'm like Pun, there isn't a whole heck of a lot that I keep on the P/C that would kill me to lose. I'll get a backup and then disable it.

[Lloyd007]

external hard drives nowadays are incredibly cheap (like 100 bucks cheap for 500gb) no need to fiddle around with system restore of putting in and taking out an internal hard drive. And with eSATA devices coming online these drives will soon be just as fast as internal hard drives (drool)  . I have an eSata port on my new comp and can't wait to try it out...

Prices are also coming down for the once untouchable dream of solid state flash hard drives. Industry predictions are going for these hard drives to make up over 30% of the sales in 2008... However normal HD will always I tihnk be the king of affordable storage since they are already up to 1TB while it costs 10k dollars rght now for a 50gb flash drive

[Electric Eye]

I've heard of that flash memory thingy, one company that specializes in it went crazy for a while.

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