Author Topic: External hardrive back up systems (Read 507 times)

FOGOLD · « **Reply #15 on:** April 09, 2004, 08:38:19 AM »

The obvious question springing from this is what is the most reliable, best drive. I suspect like most things, it will be the most expensive.

PS. Sorry. This is all hardly AH relevant stuff:rolleyes:

Skuzzy · « **Reply #16 on:** April 09, 2004, 12:45:22 PM »

In IDE/SATA drives, I think it is currently a crap shoot. They are all pretty flimsy. You probably can get one that will be great from anyone (Maxtor, Seagate, WD..), and pick up another of the same line and it would die in 5 minutes.
Although, I would not touch a WD Raptor drive with a ten foot pole. There is no way those drives are going to have any longevity.

I have adopted the procedure of burning in my HD's for 72 hours before using them. Then I tag the drives with dates they go into service and the date they need replacing. Right now, I will not allow an IDE/SATA drive to go longer than 2 years.
That could change if the fallout is too high.

Seagate SCSI Cheetah drives, I worry about them after about 10 years. It's too bad the market will not bear it, but it sure would be sweet if Seagate would put an IDE/SATA interface on the Cheetah drives.

bullett308 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 09, 2004, 01:15:15 PM »

So you recomend just backing up your data on CDs.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #18 on:** April 09, 2004, 02:21:04 PM »

DVD's actually. CD's are fine if you can get the data you need to preserve to fit in that space.

bullett308 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 09, 2004, 04:15:29 PM »

LOL just bought 25 CDs crap:(

Skuzzy · « **Reply #20 on:** April 09, 2004, 04:45:57 PM »

So, use them. Nothing wrong with CD's.

Torque · « **Reply #21 on:** April 13, 2004, 01:06:43 AM »

What if you have 240 gigs of data?