I asked: >>Are there ANY reliable, quiet, external drives of size >= 3TB today...?
Richard Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: >No. Disk drives are mechanical devices. Mechanical devices fail. Take >it as read that the drives you use for backups will fail, data will be >damaged, and you cannot predict when that will happen.... True in general, but not quite what I was asking about. My old drives lasted 4-5 years. My new ones last 6 months. I'm looking for better media. >The problem isn't the reliability of the media. It's the reliability of >the data on that media. Generally true, but when media lifespan drops by a factor of 10, it's reliability of the media too. :-) -- Dan Barrett [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
