8th February 2017, 00:04 | #11 |
Super Moderator
Clinically Insane Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,416
Thanks: 3,949
Thanked 22,018 Times in 2,250 Posts
|
Not all the brands are equally reliable.
My worst experience has been with Seagate. 2 out of 3 TB drives failed before 2 years and the other one after the third. As two of the HD were in warranty, I had a replacement, but one is already gone and the other one begins to show problems. In any case nothing is better than the experience of a storage company publishing the data of reliability of their hard drive. Looks like HGST is the most reliable. http://backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html |
The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to Qwerty987 For This Useful Post: |
19th March 2017, 20:44 | #12 |
V.I.P.
Clinically Insane Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 4,843
Thanks: 9,599
Thanked 12,808 Times in 3,719 Posts
|
Yes as regards backups you/we really need at least 3 sets.
One in your machine A second one in your house (can be in your machine as EW drive etc) (in case of main hard drive failure) A third one off site at a friends house etc (in case of fire or theft) But yes as the size of our important data (ha ha) gets bigger and bigger I think I will need to investigate NAS and RAID drives.
__________________
Could I suggest that you backup all of your files to an external hard drive and store this offsite. |
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to DigNap15 For This Useful Post: |
19th March 2017, 20:46 | #13 |
V.I.P.
Clinically Insane Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 4,843
Thanks: 9,599
Thanked 12,808 Times in 3,719 Posts
|
I am now getting ready mentally and financially to buy my first 8TB drive.
I think I will get a Seatgate 8TB enterprise drive. You need to be careful as some of the data storage drives are slow eg 5,200 rpm.
__________________
Could I suggest that you backup all of your files to an external hard drive and store this offsite. |
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to DigNap15 For This Useful Post: |
20th March 2017, 11:53 | #14 |
Registered User
Forum Lord Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 1,167
Thanks: 508
Thanked 1,697 Times in 795 Posts
|
For a "storage drive", speed isn't an issue. Higher rotational speeds decrease seek times, which helps in the case of say the primary "C" drive. Storage, for most people, means backup files, media files (such as movies), etc. Seek times for storage drive aren't a big issue.
|
The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to OddBa11 For This Useful Post: |
21st March 2017, 18:56 | #15 | |
Registered User
Addicted Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 113
Thanks: 675
Thanked 241 Times in 82 Posts
|
Quote:
As you get up in to the many Terabytes, a RAID system becomes a good idea. As a bonus, some of the RAID configurations will give you much faster disk access. |
|
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to deepsepia For This Useful Post: |
6th July 2017, 22:24 | #16 |
V.I.P.
Clinically Insane Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 4,843
Thanks: 9,599
Thanked 12,808 Times in 3,719 Posts
|
Oh well
I took the plunge the other day and bought a Seagate 10TB Barracuda hard drive. I am now copying all of my files on to it from my 6 TB drive. I jumped the 8TB as the 10TB was only one hundred dollars more and I seem to need a bigger drive every one or two years. So this jump from 6 to 10 should last me 2 or 3 years. I like the simplicity of having all of my files on just one drive. But just after I ordered it I see that Seagate are planning to release a 16TB drive. But I wont be needing one of those for a few years, by that time I may be in a rest home! (ha ha) .
__________________
Last edited by Digmen1; 6th July 2017 at 22:25.
Could I suggest that you backup all of your files to an external hard drive and store this offsite. |
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to DigNap15 For This Useful Post: |
11th July 2017, 20:20 | #17 |
Hall of Fame
Postaholic Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 6,002
Thanks: 4,915
Thanked 64,865 Times in 5,774 Posts
|
|
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to R1DDICK For This Useful Post: |
11th July 2017, 21:04 | #18 | |
Walking on the Moon
Beyond Redemption Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 30,978
Thanks: 163,452
Thanked 152,781 Times in 28,694 Posts
|
Quote:
I like the fact that it also provides 2xUSB 3.00 charging points.
__________________
SOME OF MY CONTENT POSTS ARE DOWN: FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME AND I'LL RE-UPLOAD THEM |
|
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to alexora For This Useful Post: |
12th July 2017, 11:58 | #19 | |
Registered User
Beyond Redemption Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 19,796
Thanks: 9,963
Thanked 86,372 Times in 16,165 Posts
|
Quote:
I would split it up, 3 TB from your 6 TB on one 10 TB and the other 3 TB on another 10 TB and then make sure each one of those 3 TB has an equal exact backup on another 10 TB: hence you will need a total of 4 10 TB drives. Everything I have has an exact same backup on another exact same model same size external hard drive and I don't put all my eggs in one basket. So if one fails, I don't lose anything because I have backup. In 17 years of accumulating files, videos, audio, etc etc, I have never lost any data to a hard drive failure, internal nor external. Also don't fill up your external or internal hard drives, always leave about 20% free (not including the free space that it's already on it when you first got it. Example a 4TB hard drive when you take it out of the box only has about 3.89 TB of free space, etc - when you count the 20%, don't include that .11 TB as part of the 20%) |
|
The Following User Says Thank You to Namcot For This Useful Post: |
12th July 2017, 20:02 | #20 |
V.I.P.
Clinically Insane Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 4,843
Thanks: 9,599
Thanked 12,808 Times in 3,719 Posts
|
@ Namcot
Thanks for that. I agree Up until now I have always had one main disk and one back up disk on site and one backup disk off site - all the exactly the same size. (1, 2, 3 4 and 6 TB over the years) But with the price of the 8 and 10 TB's getting up in price and with my limited income, I may not be able to afford to do this.
__________________
Could I suggest that you backup all of your files to an external hard drive and store this offsite. |
The Following User Says Thank You to DigNap15 For This Useful Post: |
Thread Tools | |
|
|