antonioconte
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Hi, I'm a freelancer and I work from home and I'm getting a bit paranoid about my backup Hard Drive ( Maxtor firewire) getting stolen ever. If it did, It woul seriously be a nightmare, know what I mean? All those clients artwork etc gone!
Anyway, I'm thinking of purchasing a 10m 6pin firewire cable and positioning the drive in the loft, above my office. Ok, I know in the summer it'll get hot and in the winter it could get really cold but it is insulated up there.
Also, my concern would be dust getting into the drive, or am I being too cautious?
I also might have to run the firewire out of the room through the wall, on the outside of the room and back into the loft.
My other concern is that I will need to install a socket (no problem) for the power and would install a switch so I could switch the drive off and on as I would not want to constantly have to go up in the loft to switch it off/on. Is this a problem with Hard Drive? I woul dhave to leave the switch on the back of it constanly in ON position and rely on my socket switch to switch it on and off. It would be a fused switch though which I suppose would be a good idea?
Anyone got an idea if I'm doing the right thing?
thanks in advance!
Anyway, I'm thinking of purchasing a 10m 6pin firewire cable and positioning the drive in the loft, above my office. Ok, I know in the summer it'll get hot and in the winter it could get really cold but it is insulated up there.
Also, my concern would be dust getting into the drive, or am I being too cautious?
I also might have to run the firewire out of the room through the wall, on the outside of the room and back into the loft.
My other concern is that I will need to install a socket (no problem) for the power and would install a switch so I could switch the drive off and on as I would not want to constantly have to go up in the loft to switch it off/on. Is this a problem with Hard Drive? I woul dhave to leave the switch on the back of it constanly in ON position and rely on my socket switch to switch it on and off. It would be a fused switch though which I suppose would be a good idea?
Anyone got an idea if I'm doing the right thing?
thanks in advance!