When it comes to hard drives and data, remember this: There are two kinds of people: Those who have lost data and those who will lose data. Learn now how to create a good backup system, and you won't be banging your head against the wall when your hdd crashes.
Jake On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: >> >> The original question still stands. I hear folks on this list and >> other >> places saying they won't ever buy seagate again. So what are they >> buying? Maxtor? WD (which is seagate again)? Hitachi? > > I used to buy Seagates exclusively because they had a 5-year warranty. >> From now on, I'll buy the cheapest drive with a 3-year warranty (as >> long > as the particular model doesn't get bad reviews). And I still believe > in backups as much as ever. > > By the way, I consider hard drive failures inevitable, and I don't > take > it personally when a disk dies. Just make sure that it's easy to > recover by actually trying it. Recover everything to a spare system > and > make sure that it doesn't take long to do. > > -- > Andrew McNabb > http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ > PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU- > UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
