Comment Re:SATA Slots. (Score 2) 162
Since when is a disc mounted permanently in the computer case considered even remotely a backup option?
When it's a second disc with a copy of files from the first disk, or a raid-0 mirror disk.
Good for backup from hardware failures. Not so good at backup from malware. Back up from malware needs to be on a remote machine that isn't mounted into the file space of the backed up machine so the malware can't infect it. That's why I have both. Local mirroring and a backup system that scp's the files periodically over the network.