Re: [NF] Seeking Suggestions for backup DVD storage...

Author: Andrew Stirling

Posted: 2009-05-23 at 20:26:48

Kam

There has been a problem with Seagate drives lately:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126280

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http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/19/tick-tick-tick-significant-number-of-seagate-hard-drives-fail/

Andrew Stirling

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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.

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> We are thinking about making a Raid5 system with FreeNAS using 4 1.5 TB drives. Does anyone have experience with this?

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> ----- Original Message -----

> From: Alan Bourke

> To: profox@leafe.com

> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:35 AM

> Subject: RE: [NF] Seeking Suggestions for backup DVD storage...

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> On Sat, 23 May 2009 08:21 -0500, "Jerry Foote" <jerry@footegroup.com>

> 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

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> Yep, a couple of external 1TB drives would not be that much these days.

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