I'm looking for big hard drives for disk-to-disk backup. I want reliability; speed and access time less important. 5400 RPM is probably more reliable than 7200 RPM.
I used to buy large hard drives from local merchants; with Enu and Pacific Micro gone, I know of no good local options. Iguana has hard drives, but nothing over 4TB, no high-reliability disks. So, Amazon or Newegg or ? I am leaning towards Western Digital Red Pro 8TB with the 5 year warranty. Perhaps 50% more $ per byte than a WD Blue 4TB, but cheaper per byte-year. Big drives store more data per hour of setup time, though I lose more backup images in one go if they fail (I backup to two different backup servers). If some of you have better ideas, please share them here. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
