06-15-2014, 10:29 PM
My wife has just about killed me when she found out I have 3x 2TB, 3x 3TB externals to match the same quantity internals, and back them up monthly. The internals are RAID and the externals are each a mirror of the data, unplugged and in 3 locations apart just in case.
I got VERY lucky and lost my main laptop HDD the same time DEAK did, and by nothing short of a miracle had made a backup 3 weeks before... PURE LUCK.
I'll recommend the Seagate Externals as they're amazing drives, the bases remove and you can drop any SATA drive on it to have it as an external USB3 HDD. They're amazing speed and at $85 for 2TB and $95 for 3TB you can't lose! I've had every WD drive and NONE of the Seagate's I beat the crap out of fail.
(On a side note, did you know the super-fancy amazing drives that read/write 24x7x365 inside the Tivo's is a generic WD GREEN drive... aka the ones that aren't made for that
Not sure what the deal is there, but hell - you can HEAR the drives taking a beating and there's no way to back those up)
I got VERY lucky and lost my main laptop HDD the same time DEAK did, and by nothing short of a miracle had made a backup 3 weeks before... PURE LUCK.
I'll recommend the Seagate Externals as they're amazing drives, the bases remove and you can drop any SATA drive on it to have it as an external USB3 HDD. They're amazing speed and at $85 for 2TB and $95 for 3TB you can't lose! I've had every WD drive and NONE of the Seagate's I beat the crap out of fail.
(On a side note, did you know the super-fancy amazing drives that read/write 24x7x365 inside the Tivo's is a generic WD GREEN drive... aka the ones that aren't made for that
Not sure what the deal is there, but hell - you can HEAR the drives taking a beating and there's no way to back those up)