Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >