Get a nas from Fry's electronics. Well worth the money. Also, buy a fire proof safe and mount the nas in the safe. Will save your life if you have a fire. They make electronics safes. Don't rush into a burning house for hard drives. Pets and wives only bruh. On Sep 1, 2016 07:56, "Stephen Partington" wrote: > Technically this can be done with an Esata drive or a flexible bios. for > your scenario my suggestion is to have an internal drive for your system > and then all important data gets mirrored off to an external device. either > NAS or USB. > > There are other drive connections you cna look into such as thunderbolt > and firewire. Lots of ways to do this. > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Michael wrote: > >> thanks... what about this: do they have something where you can make all >> of your hard drives external? I so fear a fire and losing all of my data. I >> want to just be able to run into the room and yank the hard drive (I live >> in a tinder box!). >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Anon Anon wrote: >> >>> Also, I use an m2 SSD. Look for something supporting m2 flash. Mine is >>> super fast but 512gb cost me 300 buckeronies. >>> >>> On Sep 1, 2016 07:39, "Anon Anon" wrote: >>> >>>> You want a solid state drive. >>>> >>>> On Sep 1, 2016 07:37, "Michael" wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm interested in getting a computer that doesn't run with a >>>>> traditional hard drive (I guess that would be a flash drive). Are they >>>>> called something different or else what is the technical name so I can look >>>>> them up. I really want one I can put together myself. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >