How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/29/2013 05:50 PM, Tim wrote:
> That's really not a good way to gauge it.  Some time ago I swore of
> Western Digital drives, after having several drives die within a couple
> of years.

And then there are folks such has myself who have nearly swore off Seagate drives for similar short life episodes but have WD drives running for years.

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