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doug, I do have a "spare" Hitachi" 20GB drive. Rather old but functional from what I'm told. Problem is, your Dell likely has a controller for a higher capacity drive so I don't think it'll work.
These days with USB keys hitting 8GB capacity, there's no reason you couldn't just off load critical data onto a USB key. It's effectively solid-state but IF you want good archival media, I'd burn a CDROM. I've done this for my old VW website so if I ever lose the source on the HDD, or if Comcasts loses it (can't see how though), I can recover.
Need to do that for my Cobra site now since the updates aren't happening frequently anymore. That and all the family photos. Then store them in my vault.
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