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Loc: Hellertown PA
rmalarz wrote:
I'm using G-Technology drives for both primary image storage and one for backup.
--Bob
The only issue I have with G-Technology is that you never know what drive(s) are inside until you get it. With LaCie it will now be a Seagate. Best of luck.
This may seem off the subject but it really is not. Storing your hard drives when not in use. The best place to store your hard drives would be the old refrigerator. You simply place it in a convenient location, mine are in the garage, along with a top load old freezer. The freezer hold years of prints, and negatives and transparencies are in old refrigerators along with the hard drives. I also have an old refrigerator painted yellow and marked 'flammable' where combustibles are stored.
The fridges have ALL the electrical and other parts removed. These are now fire proof storage units. Guess what, after fire the larger issue in a fire is all the water used to put out the fire. Firemen will tell you the one thing that survives a fire is a refrigerator, even falling several floors through the floor they are on!
One last thing, the University of Texas now does NOT discard refrigerators, they gut them of the electrical/cooling systems and use them as fire proof storage units. A standard house hold refrigerator meets and exceeds OSH requirements for fire proof/solvent storage units.
Just though I would share this with you all.
That is very cool information to know. No pun intended.
--Bob
Timmers wrote:
This may seem off the subject but it really is not. Storing your hard drives when not in use. The best place to store your hard drives would be the old refrigerator. You simply place it in a convenient location, mine are in the garage, along with a top load old freezer. The freezer hold years of prints, and negatives and transparencies are in old refrigerators along with the hard drives. I also have an old refrigerator painted yellow and marked 'flammable' where combustibles are stored.
The fridges have ALL the electrical and other parts removed. These are now fire proof storage units. Guess what, after fire the larger issue in a fire is all the water used to put out the fire. Firemen will tell you the one thing that survives a fire is a refrigerator, even falling several floors through the floor they are on!
One last thing, the University of Texas now does NOT discard refrigerators, they gut them of the electrical/cooling systems and use them as fire proof storage units. A standard house hold refrigerator meets and exceeds OSH requirements for fire proof/solvent storage units.
Just though I would share this with you all.
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I have 3 WD external drives. Only program files are on my PC. All photos and documents are on the externals. Backup of the main external is done to the second ED, then the Second is copied to the third. Who knows how long it will work, but with 5T of space on each one, I don't expect to run out of space soon.
globetrekker wrote:
Hi Hogs,
Just thought I’d ask for some quick advice on replacing my external hard drive. I’m almost out of space on my current EHD, plus it’s pretty old. So I want a new one, with greater capacity. (Current one has less capacity that my PC’s drives.) Couple of quick questions.
My current EHD is a WD Passport. It’s been fine, so I thought I’d buy another Passport. Any thoughts on these models? Other models I could consider?
I use Windows to back up to my EHD, on a weekly basis. When I install the new EHD, should I delete the current backup scheme in Windows, and start over and create a new one? Or if I just swap out my old and new EHDs, will the existing backup scheme keep working? (Obviously, the initial back would be everything, so it would take hours.)
Thank you.
Hi Hogs, br br Just thought I’d ask for some quic... (
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I have an 8TB Seagate that I really like, its super small, smaller than a pack of cigarettes, that's all, its plug'n play and cheap, I paid $ 130!
speters wrote:
I have an 8TB Seagate that I really like, its super small, smaller than a pack of cigarettes, that's all, its plug'n play and cheap, I paid $ 130!
I have a close friend who is the IT person in the southern district for the US Air Force, his job involves monitoring all e-mail communications going into and out of the district recording ALL communications. When I asked him what he though the best external hard drives were he said Seagate. The Government uses Seagate for it's back up. So I use Seagate for my hard drive back up.
Timmers wrote:
I have a close friend who is the IT person in the southern district for the US Air Force, his job involves monitoring all e-mail communications going into and out of the district recording ALL communications. When I asked him what he though the best external hard drives were he said Seagate. The Government uses Seagate for it's back up. So I use Seagate for my hard drive back up.
Seagate Barracudas are good. I have three as externals. My primary in the desktop is a WD Enterprise drive (Gold).
globetrekker wrote:
Hi Hogs,
Just thought I’d ask for some quick advice on replacing my external hard drive. I’m almost out of space on my current EHD, plus it’s pretty old. So I want a new one, with greater capacity. (Current one has less capacity that my PC’s drives.) Couple of quick questions.
My current EHD is a WD Passport. It’s been fine, so I thought I’d buy another Passport. Any thoughts on these models? Other models I could consider?
I use Windows to back up to my EHD, on a weekly basis. When I install the new EHD, should I delete the current backup scheme in Windows, and start over and create a new one? Or if I just swap out my old and new EHDs, will the existing backup scheme keep working? (Obviously, the initial back would be everything, so it would take hours.)
Thank you.
Hi Hogs, br br Just thought I’d ask for some quic... (
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I filled my 2 TB WD My Book external and replaced it with a new 8 TB WD My Book. I never had a problem with my original 1 TB WD My Book, nor with the 2 TB. I've had the 8 TB for about a year with no problems either. The drive comes with backup software and I have mine set to backup every night at 1 AM. The drive is USB 3, so it's reasonably fast.
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