I have a blend of brands for my external HDD units that I use for disk image and file backup purposes. But not being the trusting type I also back up the backup HDD units to a 2nd set of external HDD units, connected to a Dell 840 Server via eSATA. Since having gone to a 2nd layer of HDD protection (which is backed up weekly to an LTO3 tape drive unit, on any one of 3 sets of tape media) I have only lost one primary backup HDD. I bet if I did not have the backup HDD units backed up at a 2nd level, much less via LTO3 tape, I would have lost a lot more <g>...
That said, a friend of mine in SoCal had a Lacie 500Gb RAID external USB2 unit. He told me last year that he could never lose data on that unit because of its RAID configuration. "Wanna bet?", asked I. Sure enough, the other month he lost the Lacie unit. He could not find anyone who was willing to touch it for less than $1,000 to try to recover data. And I was not out there to try to help him out. Luckily he moved it from being used as a primary storage device to file backup only, otherwise he would have lost a lot of client video he was storing. He has now gone to the primary/secondary external HDD backup strategy. Once he has the bux to do so he is going to get an LTO4 Tape Drive and start to behave in a responsible manner. Some of the video he shoots is for the medical community for training. Once in a while they ask him to splice in or out changes, then recompile the output file. So if he ever lost the source files used for his compilation he would be "almost" screwed. He tells me he has the original tapes, and can rebuild the projects if he has to. I advised that I would not put that much faith into tape, and pointed out the hours of tape restoring and recompilation he could save by not taking chances. I have been using the Seagate FreeAgent External HDD units for the past year (5 year warranty) with good results. If you want to use these with anything other than XP or Vista you will need to connect the HDD via US2 to an XP/Vista machine, then run the Seagate software to turn off the sleep mode (default = 15 minutes, I set it to never sleep, gets saved in the HDD firmware). That way on a Linux/Mac/Windows Server 2003 machine the HDDs never "disappear" when they go to sleep. It is the only flaw I have experienced thus far with that model. BTW, I found their utility software works fine with USB2, maybe with Firewire, but certainly not with an eSATA connection. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Kevin Cully > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Heads up to Buffalo NAS owners > > > Thanks Michael. I've got a Buffalo LS (250G) that's been running > reliably for about 5 years now. I'd hate to lose her. > > -Kevin > CULLY Technologies, LLC > > > Michael Madigan wrote: > > I just had a problem where my NAS wasn't recognized by the > network anymore. I could ping it, but I couldn't see the shares > and I couldn't get into the web admin. > > > > In my case, and I suspect in many cases, the flash memory got > trashed. By just running a firmware update downloaded from > Buffalo, that fixed all my problems. > > > > Keep that in your memory banks. > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
