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3 copies of data on 2 separate media 1 in another location. That being said. This might help some one out there, disk fresh to keep the data from bit rot. That also being said, I did switch to a Drobo for data protection, but that's mostly just disk protection and not true data protection I have a few 8tb Seagate archive drives, their mainly used for storage of ripped movies. The Drobo has 6 and 4tb WD reds. |
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Years ago I used to use a program called Disk ReFresh. The concept is something we don't think about these days.
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I should have read this topic first since I just bought a Seagate 3TB. .
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I lost over 2GB of porn, including some 300GB of facial movies I was using to make a compilation... It's nothing I can't replace in time, mostly, but it was still a large loss. I've not yet been able to access the drive, so it's apparently a total loss. Unfortunately, most of the rest of my data, the important stuff, is on another identical 3TB drive for now. I'm not going to fuck around with this much long though, as I just ordered a WD Gold 10TB Datacenter drive to replace these 2 3TB's. I'm never using a Seagate drive again. From now I'm sticking with WD and HGST which have better reliability rates... |
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I had a WD crash and I ended up losing everything, literally. Porn, games, and my complete Seinfeld rips. Oddly it died in my lap the moment I sneezed while it was transferring something. I barely I even moved when it happened, but coincidence or not, it totally fried the hell out of it because nothing was or is recoverable. I have a expensive docking station that wont even read it at all. I got some stuff back minus one impossible to find porn scene.
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Since then I have a newer version of that WD drive that backs everything up. I have 2 other drives, one for movies, one for porn. So hopefully having everything on 2 drives is safe enough. |
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These so called "failure rates" are very low.
I have had about 30 hard drives in my life and not one has ever given me any trouble. (except one that I kept in my car - bouncy bouncy) Its just bad luck that someone has a drive that failed. Many of the failures may be in hard drive expansion enclosures. Not the drive themselves I used to sell computers in the 1980's and the hard drives often failed back then The main things is to back up. As the guy said above 3, 2, 1 And we also need to consider the fact that we are getting so much more data on a drive the same physical size that they were 10 years ago. From 250gig to 10TB !
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Can you give an actual example of the 3-2-1 cause I don't get it. Why would you make 3 copies of which 1 is on another location? I mean: this implies that you would make the other 2 copies on the same location, and what good would that be for? 250g I don't know what g stands for. I know kB, MB, GB, TB and upcoming PB. But g?? If you look at science: 1g = 9.81m/s² (acceleration) or 1g = 1 gram (weight) but I don't think neither are the the case here. .
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Yes, sorry I meant GB, and as Alexora says above ,there was a time when you could get 10 meg hard drives!
In those days, that could run a whole legal office. Now it will fit two songs!
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