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Subject: [Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:10:08 -0500
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Thanks, Richard.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Man" <richard at imagecraft.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice


> Buffalo doesn't make drives per se. They (mostly?) use WDs.
>
> 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.
>
> ***
> Shoot film :-)
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Peter Cheyne 
> <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> A piece of negative advice:  as with their namesake, steer clear of
>> Buffalo.  One died on me, and the computer guy at work resurrected it but
>> told me not to buy this brand again as they are the least reliable.
>>
>> Hope you narrow it down to a good one,
>>
>> Peter Cheyne
>>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice)
In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice)