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    Testing a new hard drive, recommended setup help

    I have used Acronis to do a backup to another drive. The backup is called Mybackup1.tib. Is this a file that only Acronis will be able to read? And how do I trust that the backup is good? I really like the idea of having an exact duplicate of all the folders so I can see for myself that I...
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    how to test a WD20EARS

    On the recommendation of another board member I downloaded Seatools, http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools when I received my WD20ears. I ran all the tests, time consuming to say the least but Im glad I did. Out of 5 WD20ears, 3 failed the smart test. Not good news but I...
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    Just received new WD20EARS. What now?

    They didnt ask or say anything about sending it back. Just issued a replacement. I didnt even ask. Ill probably get an email or something explaining what to do with the paperweight.
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    Just received new WD20EARS. What now?

    I just received 2 of the same drives from Dell also, packed exactly the same way. No shock that I couldnt even format one. I tested the other one all night and seems fine so I'm gonna keep it. Called Dell this morning and they issued a replacement that should be here in a couple days, not bad...
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    Testing a new hard drive, recommended setup help

    Thanks for the quick replies. I just bought bare drives so I didnt receive any b/u software. What is an automated differential backup? Is that something I can schedule in Acronis and it only updates any changes made to the main drive on the b/u drive? Thanks,
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    Testing a new hard drive, recommended setup help

    My movies/music/pics have grown to about 1.2 tb. I purchased 2 2tb wd drives. 1 as my main storage, 1 as the backup. Within 2 days my main storage drive started giving me problems (slow moving files, some files could not be copied or moved) and when backing up with Acronis got a few errors...