Hi Steve, Thanks so much for sharing that.
How did you know when you were buying your WD it was a black drive? I've heard you can't detect on the box or the site specs if it's back, blue, red or green. I've heard Green is for energy efficient so it goes into sleep mode and those drives don't last But, WD doesn't seem to list if it's green or any color. Thanks, Charles. From: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:04:56 +1300 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and other content Hi Charles. I have just had a new WD Black (supposed to be high(er) reliability) die within a few weeks. Replaced under warranty. The probability of that is low, but it does happen. If the backup is only a copy of what is on your PC/laptop then you are not needing such high reliability as you always have at least one copy on a failure. I archive (backup and delete original from PC) so use a little DS216 NAS storage unit with 2 drives configured raid. Less frequently I backup that to a single 4TB HD for off site safety (house burns down). I also bought a drive on Amazon recently and noticed that there was an option for $10 extra to cover data recovery in a failure. I think your best solution will depend upon how much data you need to back up and how often, an on-line solution may even work for you. Steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted