Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, I just did a count. In the last one year, for my office as well as my house, we have purchased the following Seagate drives: Barracuda 1 TB drives - 8 Free Agent Go 500 GB or I TB - 5 Free Agent Extreme 1.5 TB - 2 I have not had any trouble with any of them. They must be sending their best batches to India, and keeping the dodgy batches for the USA! (-: Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: > 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. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >