Re: Seagate Drives
- From: Jeff <Im.so.Huckin.Fappy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:36:24 -0700
Tim Ujin wrote:
I have the 300gig Seagate, I bought it about a month ago at Best Buy (for more than $200 - Ouch!). No problems so far.
"There are two types of hard drives: Those that have failed, and those that are about to fail." - is that really so? I'm archiving shows on this baby because I'm sick of burning and copying discs. Am I making a mistake?
http://yellowmachine.com/
The only way to be sure things on a hard drive are "safe" is a RAID system, where if one disk fails, the data can be rebuilt. It's all pretty interesting stuff if you get into it.
We store a *lot* of data at work, all on RAID5 disk arrays. Extremely reliable disks, with aresome reputations. Just this morning another disk failed. Since it was RAID5, all the data is being rebuilt right now. Out of the 50 or so drives we use on a regular basis, I'd say we lost about 1 every 4 months or so.
So no, you aren't making a mistake. I've done the same thing myself, using pullout harddrives instead of external drives. But I know I'm still running with scissors, and I have in fact lost drives. "Damn. There goes 1973!".
No matter what the media, one copy of anything is always a risk. That's the beauty of RAID. You can essentially back up 4 hard drives onto 1....
~Jeff .
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