[Leica] Backup hardware: USB3 HDD

[Richard Man]

ALL drives died. I have a drawer full of dead WD, Seagate, IBM etc.

Buy the "enterprise" versions with at least 5 years warranty. Don't skim on
hard drive.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> I've never had a Western Digtal drive give out on my and its been a decade
> and many many drives. I'm about to put my 1TB of pic files on a 2TB drive
> pre formated for Mac (takes the stress out).
> The lines I've gone for are the
> WD  My Book External Hard Drive for Mac
> The 3 TB costs $98.99 cents plus tax ...Which is my price point exactly. A
> penny more no deal.
>
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> On 9/27/15 2:19 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Frys Electronics has a Western Digital 5TB external USB3.0 drive on sale
> for
> > $120. This is a massive amount of storage (in Leica M240 terms, about
> 200,000
> > raw  images).   If you are looking for a backup HDD, this is a cost
> effective
> > solution.
> >
> > Please, no outbursts of WD is no good, brand Z is better.  Or some techie
> > version of why you should only use NAS drives.  This is a simple, cost
> > effective, low tech way to backup your computer.
> >
> >
> >
> > Frank Filippone
> > Red735i at verizon.net
> >
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