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

Hi Steve,

Thanks so much for sharing that.

How did you know when you were buying your WD it was a black drive?

I've heard you can't detect on the box or the site specs if it's back,
blue, red or green.

I've heard Green is for energy efficient so it goes into sleep mode and
those drives don't last

But, WD doesn't seem to list if it's green or any color.

Thanks,

Charles.
From: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:04:56 +1300
Subject: 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

-- 
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