External hard drives
Feb 20, 2016 11:50:40 #
Just bought two of these LaCie drives, one for data and one for time machine:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009CQUTDQ?keywords=lacie%203tb&qid=1455986917&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3
These are also sold by Apple UK albeit £10-11 dearer.
Both running so far sweet as a nut.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009CQUTDQ?keywords=lacie%203tb&qid=1455986917&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3
These are also sold by Apple UK albeit £10-11 dearer.
Both running so far sweet as a nut.
Feb 20, 2016 12:47:07 #
I have 2 Toshibas now that have been doing great for 2 years. I am always careful with them; they have been all over the place and no problem.
Feb 20, 2016 13:35:36 #
Mike D. wrote:
Too many variables here TH but 2 tb are cheap and will last quite a while. I save everything in jpg and raw & have yet to put a serious dent in the 2 tb that I have and thos includes almost every picture that I've taken in the last 25 years.
Without more info it's anyone's guess. Good luck with your search.
Without more info it's anyone's guess. Good luck with your search.
Agree!
Feb 20, 2016 13:41:20 #
Triggerhappy wrote:
I need an external hard drive for my IMac computer to back up photos. I have heard that Western Digital is good. I need advice on what to buy. Which is reliable and long lasting?
How do I get just my photos to go to the backup drive and not all other info? Do I need more than one and what size?
How do I get just my photos to go to the backup drive and not all other info? Do I need more than one and what size?
I don't use toy computers (Mac), but the drives are the same. Western Digital is fine. Despite some comments, Seagate has a great reliability reputation in the computer industry. Hitachi also, but they don't make an external box.
All hard drives have a life-span shorter than yours. Google has hundreds of thousands of drives and did a study a few years ago. Statistical mean was two years of 24 hour a day usage. They did not publish the names of the better drives (I suspect they would have had to hire more lawyers.) What this means is, at a minimum, get two and make two backups on different drives.
Feb 20, 2016 14:25:20 #
Thanks Everyone for your input and advice on external drives and backup information. I'm going to read the websites that you gave me for info.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
Feb 20, 2016 14:28:08 #
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Feb 20, 2016 15:02:58 #
A RAID device is a redundancy group of hard drives that uses a number of hard drives to multiply the performance characteristics of a single drive to increase speed, capacity or reliability/availability, or all three. It is intended as working storage, not as a backup. The only exception is that some companies use mirrored RAIDs (in separate locations) instead of backup because the size of the data is too large (or performance requirements are too high) for a conventional backup to tape.
Feb 20, 2016 15:24:47 #
... Seagate has a great reliability reputation in the computer industry...
With respect, their enterprise-class drives - yes (despite the FC/SCSI Barracuda 7 massive recall). Their consumer-class drives - not so much.
With respect, their enterprise-class drives - yes (despite the FC/SCSI Barracuda 7 massive recall). Their consumer-class drives - not so much.
Feb 20, 2016 16:58:00 #
Triggerhappy wrote:
I need an external hard drive for my IMac computer to back up photos. I have heard that Western Digital is good. I need advice on what to buy. Which is reliable and long lasting?
How do I get just my photos to go to the backup drive and not all other info? Do I need more than one and what size?
How do I get just my photos to go to the backup drive and not all other info? Do I need more than one and what size?
I use WD, Toshiba and Sea Gate all seem to work very well. Don't know about other info as I use Windows and the only info that goes on them is what I put onto them.
So far for several years now my original drives have not failed but one never knows. So have a back up for your drives.
Feb 20, 2016 18:20:07 #
KAK wrote:
Why is a RAID device a poor back up option?
Aside from what TriX said, a RAID is designed to address one single problem, the problem of hardware failure. Specifically hard drives. It does not address viruses, accidental deletion, brain dead users, incremental Bu's, fire, flood, rape and pillaging, and a ton of other factors.
Ok, got a little carried away there, but you should get the point.
Feb 20, 2016 18:42:16 #
I have stored a great many pictures on an external hard drive and it has worked quite well. I merely dragged the photo onto the drive icon.
Also those little bitty flash drives are really handy to drag photos onto. They can be carried in your pocket or purse easily and if you want a photo print there are many stores you can just wander in to and make use of your flash drive to gain a paper print.
Also those little bitty flash drives are really handy to drag photos onto. They can be carried in your pocket or purse easily and if you want a photo print there are many stores you can just wander in to and make use of your flash drive to gain a paper print.
Feb 20, 2016 18:49:30 #
I have been using both Seagate and Western Digital all along, with WD my choice of late, for no specific reason. I have had good luck with both, but I have also had a few drive failures over the years. Everything I store is on at least one set of RAID 1 drives. I've got a couple of Synology NAS units, a Netgear one as well as a WD dual drive unit attached directly to my iMac. I'm just anal about this, plain and simple. Best of luck.
Feb 20, 2016 18:57:16 #
I would look for one with an on and off switch. Non of my drives have off switches. I pulled the plug out of the back of an older WD and the board in the box came apart. I couldnt get it back together fortunately stuff was on a second drive....so nothing was lost.
Feb 20, 2016 23:07:28 #
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