On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Digiital aka David <[email protected]> wrote: > No question go for Harddrive. BUT don't put your trust on just one drive > either. The power up and power down puts a lot of strain on the drive, you > are just better to leave the drive on all the time. Better option would be a > NAS with RAID setup. > > I have had a few drives gone belly up, lucky I had them setup as RAID and > had a backup of the backup. > Its a raid array I'm trying to back up. What this issue (failed array) has taught me is that hard discs aren't enough!!!
A tip - - - some of the drives marketed as applicable to NAS raid arrays really aren't applicable. You need to be purchasing drives that have ERC or error recovery control. I was slapped upside the head because I had drives that didn't have that but when I bought the drives (early 2012) NOBODY was talking about that. So now starts the search for effective backup media!! Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
