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

Hi Charles, it is on the drive, WD Black is called that with a black label.
Also advertised that way, i.e. 
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Performance-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B00FJRS6FU
https://www.amazon.com/Red-3TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B008JJLW4M/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1508359324&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=wd+red&psc=1
steve

On 19/10/17 09:28, charles meyer wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> Thank you so much for your post.
>
> How did you know you were buying  A "Red" WD drive?
>
> Thank again,
>
> Charles.
>
> From: Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list@gmail.com>
> To:
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:46:57 -0400
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and
> other content
> > needs.  I have seen the "red" drives as large as 8-TB for $400 USD.  The
> > 4-TB run about $150.  If I have the money, I would replace my current
> drives
> > with these drives.
> I'm on the extreme side of safe-data paranoia.  :)  For my documents,
> photos, and source code (basically stuff I create):
>
> 1. It lives on a SSD in my primary laptop
> 2. It's copied to an external 1TB WD RED drive that I keep in a safe
> bolted to the floor.
> 3. Once a year, I create a Blu-Ray M-DISC of that year's stuff.  You
> can get a 100GB M-DISC (that can go from boiling water to dry ice
> without damage) for $20.
> 4. I have a home server that runs a dozen or so VM's.  It has two 4TB
> WD RED drives in a RAID-1.  I sourced the drives separately- one from
> Micro Center, the other from Amazon.  This is because statistically,
> the chance that any two drives will fail at approximately the same
> time is MUCH higher if both drives are from the same batch.  So I
> ensured that each drive is from a different batch.  I have a LUKS
> encrypted partition that I will occasionally mount and rsync my newest
> stuff to, then unmount again.


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