[Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Thanks, Spencer.  My last Seagate seems ok, but they seem to be letting 
things slip through the cracks right now.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Cheng" <spencer at aotera.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice


> 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.
>>
>
>
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