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

Hi Remy,

Your posts are so appreciated.

I'm in the USA so I'm not sure how  500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ translates into
American dollars?

Is it easier to detect which NAS drives are Red
than trying to ascertain that with WD?

Thank you so much,

Charles.

From: Remy Gauthier <remygauthier@yahoo.com>
To: charles meyer <reachmeplace@gmail.com>, "users@global.libreoffice.org" <
users@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:10:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and
other content

Hi,

Hard drives will die (even SSDs). While MTBF indicates long periods of
time, some will still experience drive failures with corresponding loss
of data (been there, done that). If you want to use something external
to store your data while still having very low probability of data
loss, I would recommend buying a NAS. Most of these units will have
multiple disks used to ensure the loss of one hard disk will not
negatively affect you. Get a two-bay unit operated in RAID 1 at a
minimum; this means you can loose one disk and keep on going until you
replace the faulty disk. Units with more bays will provide additional
levels of protection, but at a higher initial investment (ASUSTOR 2-bay
units go for about 500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ for 4-bay plus hard
disks - my IT buddy would probably tell you to go for WD Red)

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