Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, You probably got the .12 version, the 12th change since the original. The .11 versions were the ones that had the bad firmware and caused a lot of grief. My last one was the .10, and it is used for archiving images, and has had no problems at all (yet). Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice > Jim, > I just did a count. In the last one year, for my office as well as my > house, > we have purchased the following Seagate drives: > > Barracuda 1 TB drives - 8 > > Free Agent Go 500 GB or I TB - 5 > > Free Agent Extreme 1.5 TB - 2 > > I have not had any trouble with any of them. They must be sending their > best > batches to India, and keeping the dodgy batches for the USA! (-: > > Cheers > Jayanand > > > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Jim Nichols > <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: > >> Thanks, Spencer. My last Seagate seems ok, but they seem to be letting >> things slip through the cracks right now. >> >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spencer Cheng" <spencer at aotera.org> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 1:25 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice >> >> >> Hi Jim, >>> >>> All very true. >>> >>> My preference right now is to avoid Seagate as they shipped me a >>> bad-from-the-box replacement 320GB HDD after the original HDD failed >>> last >>> year. This means they are not spending enough on quality control. >>> >>> If you have a PC shop you trust, ask them which HDDs are having problems >>> (or which one would they recommend). They don't like unhappy customers >>> and >>> unhappy customers don't like them and they are always current on >>> problems >>> which are appearing. >>> >>> The other suggestion I would offer is to have backups via different >>> methods. For example, I use a Time Capsule, a home made NAS and an >>> external >>> disk which I backup to using different S/W (Apple's Time Machine, rsync >>> and >>> disk cloning) >>> >>> Regards, >>> Spencer >>> >>> On Jul 3, 2010, at 19:10, Brian Reid wrote: >>> >>> I concur 100% with what Richard Man said: >>>> >>>> All drives fail. Just make sure you have at least one backup copy. >>>> Don't >>>>> go >>>>> for the cutting edge multi-TB drive. 1 TB is probably very mature >>>>> technology >>>>> by now. >>>>> >>>>> Don't trust RAID, unless you are a PRO. 2 drives with continuous >>>>> backup >>>>> give >>>>> me a better peace of mind. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >