I eat hard drives like candy. Right now I ONLY buy Seagate drives, mainly due to the 5 year warranty. I keep all my precious data backed up with Jungledisk so it it fails, not that big of a deal. I also bought SpinRite and use it on my drives every few months to exercise them. I have not had a failure since. My friend did have an older Seagate external fail (SpinRite saved it), and I heard their 1.5 TB have issues. I currently have 2 of those in my file server with no problems. Right now I have 2 1.5TB, 1 750GB, 2 400GB, and 4 200GB all in various computers/devices all Seagate and all work fine. I have 1 western digital 400gb too, given as a gift and it works great too.
A good rule of thumb, if the data is not in 2 places it does not exist. I would suggest looking into online backup like Mozy, which I used before Jungledisk. I loved it, but only switched to Jungledisk because Mozy does not have a Linux client.
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Date: 2009-07-27 02:27 pm (UTC)A good rule of thumb, if the data is not in 2 places it does not exist. I would suggest looking into online backup like Mozy, which I used before Jungledisk. I loved it, but only switched to Jungledisk because Mozy does not have a Linux client.