Kam There has been a problem with Seagate drives lately: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126280 & http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/19/tick-tick-tick-significant-number-of-seagate-hard-drives-fail/
Andrew Stirling 01250 874580 http://www.calcpay.co.uk HMRC Accredited UK payroll program KAM.covad wrote: > We have been getting 1.5 TB Seagate drives at Directron lately. We have > already had 1 failure out of 8 in about 3 months. Luckily, we make multiple > copies every night. > > We are thinking about making a Raid5 system with FreeNAS using 4 1.5 TB > drives. Does anyone have experience with this? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alan Bourke > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:35 AM > Subject: RE: [NF] Seeking Suggestions for backup DVD storage... > > > > > On Sat, 23 May 2009 08:21 -0500, "Jerry Foote" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> With the cost of large external drives, I have copied all of my backup's >> to >> a external drive, I now have instant access and complete portability with >> the discs off site > > Yep, a couple of external 1TB drives would not be that much these days. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
