Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and other content

Hi Charles.
I have just had a new WD Black (supposed to be high(er) reliability) die 
within a few weeks. Replaced under warranty.
The probability of that is low, but it does happen. If the backup is 
only a copy of what is on your PC/laptop then you are not needing such 
high reliability as you always have at least one copy on a failure.

I archive (backup and delete original from PC) so use a little DS216 NAS 
storage unit  with 2 drives configured raid. Less frequently I backup 
that to a single 4TB HD for off site safety (house burns down).

I also bought a drive on Amazon recently and noticed that there was an 
option for $10 extra to cover data recovery in a failure.

I think your best solution will depend upon how much data you need to 
back up and how often, an on-line solution may even work for you.

Steve

On 17/10/17 07:53, charles meyer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a SONY external hard drive that just died one day within it's
> warranty period.
>
> SONY won't recover my drive contents so the next time I've got an extra
> $500 I'll have to find a data recovery firm.
>
> I need to back up my contents - music, videos, data but I can't seem to
> find an objective, independent evaluation of which external hard drives are
> most reliable.
>
> Have you found any such article?
>
> Or have you found through experience certain brands more reliable than
> others?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Charles.


--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted