[Leica] Seagate - again

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Tina,
Another  thing might help. My son set up a desktop machine as a Windows
Homeserver a year or so ago, and it has been working very well - backs up
all the computers in the house (two desktops and five laptops) daily
according to the users preference. The drives are configured in Raid 5 mode.
In addition, I back up from my desktop/laptop to external drives every
weekend, and they come with me to my office on Monday, and stay there during
the week.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Dennis <dennis at hale-pohaku.net> wrote:

> Hi Tina,
>
> This one should work, it does both IDE and SATA interface drives. I think
> it's the one I have in a box around here.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156017
>
> I hate USB connectors. IMO they are supremely unreliable. All  it takes is
> a touch during a file transfer and windows says the disc has been removed.
>
> I am sure the connectors pass many insertion cycle tests but those test are
> done by robotics. It has to be for the test to be standardised but the
> connectors are perfectly aligned and the movement exactly parallel to the
> contacts so they are test at least an order of magnitude better than
> insertions by humans. More like two orders of magnitude. I like NAS on
> gigabit ethernet. The connectors, invented by Bell Labs I believe, are much
> better design and more reliable and you don't have  to unplug so often.
> Granted with two locations you need to move data back and forth but via the
> internet is a possiblity.
>
> Todays techs don't solder anymore. Now that everthing has solder without
> lead it's harder due to the higher melting point. (more than you really 
> want
> to know, sorry)
>
> Good luck!
> -Dennis
>
>
> T
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