Decreasing life expectancy

[ProblemAgain]

 well there went another one...this time a western digital 2 tb elements just a couple years old and holding about 1,685 gb of movies and such. that prompted me to remind everyone to backup and backup again...the days of durable drives might just be fairly well over...with cheaper prices comes cheaper quality as a general rule..either that or this is to get us to convert to solid state drives..so when you do have things to save copy them and make two copies...cause one for sure is going to take a steaming dump on your shoe....and the brands? well i've had seagate, western digitals, samsungs and others all die....but i do have three external iomega drives that just continue to chug away...guess what i'll be looking for this time?

[GrandPaGardener]

Suggest you purchase a NAS Storage unit with multiple drives, set it up as a raid device. Should a drive fail, you can perform a hot swap! and keep on going!!!

AL

[ProblemAgain]

i run about 9 to 10 tb of drive space and most is used for storage...i backup my movies, music and all sorts of files and try to keep the primary drive fairly bare..(cept for tons of programs). the trouble with backing up and having drives fail is you essentially are paying rent for the storage of your files. and i never ever trust the concept of cloud storage..i am getting fairly disappointed with the quality of much of the newer electronic and computer goods. the new lower price also seems to mean new lower quality. (if you notice, the warranty periods have been shrinking)..ergo you are getting more and more doorstops

[officerripley]

Yep, digital doorstops; very frustrating.

[ProblemAgain]

watch out for the usb connector on the My Book...they let the usb cord be rather unprotected from side impacts and that breaks the usb connector off the internal circuitboard...a case of a poor design flaw...they could make a simple fix by having the sides of the book be longer to make the connection sheltered from side forces..and the data written to the my book has to be accessed using their technology..if you pull the drive out and put it in a different enclosure, your computer will want to reformat the drive to make it accessible

[ProblemAgain]

so what this means is many of the 'hard drive' companies simply have drives made to order by the large companies...that can mean that the manufacturers are building to better specs or it might mean that they are simply rebranding an existing line...or even that they have built a drive that is even MORE cheaply made than their own brands

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This page provides a list to the various companies that manufacturer PC hard drives.

Fujitsu Manufacturer of high performance SCSI drives mainly used in the server market. Hitachi Global Storage This is the web site for the newly created division of Hitachi after the purchase of the IBM storage division. Information can be found here for both Hitachi's drive lines as well as the IBM line of drives. IBM This is the legacy site for the IBM storage division which was recently sold to Hitachi. Maxtor Manufacturer of the popular DiamondMax line of PC hard drives and high performance SCSI server drives. Seagate Manufacturer of a wide range of PC hard drives and high performance SCSI hard drives. Western Digital Maker of the popular Caviar line of PC hard drives.

[GrandPaGardener]

Well, I guess you have reached a point in time that you need to determine what capacity you want to store on-line. Then the next question is do you really need to back it up???

Here is one of many solutions, but I'll warn you that it does come with a hefty price tage!

http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/disk-backup/product-detail.html?o...

[ProblemAgain]

i did see a really nice solution for the problem..a solid state drive but it does come with a $1,999. price tag...and it is NOT that large...

[ProblemAgain]

here's another solution....

Review Date July 06, 2011

• Promise Pegasus R6

Promise Pegasus R6

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MSRP
$1999.00

• Pros

  Copious storage. Faster throughput than an internal SSD. Can be daisy chained.

• Cons Pricey initial investment. Only Thunderbolt interface. Only works with new Macs that have a Thunderbolt port.
• Bottom Line

  If you know you need this insanely fast, Mac-centric Thunderbolt drive, you need the 12TB Promise Pegasus R6 external hard drive. For everyone else, this is a pricey experiment into how much you can spend for a lot of speedy hard drive storage.

By Joel Santo Domingo

The Promise Pegasus R6 ($1,999 list at the Apple store) is an extremely pricey, very large, crazy-fast external hard drive array with a Thunderbolt interface for the high-end graphics industry. If you're a hardcore Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Media Composer user, your mouth will start salivating after you read this. For everyone else, standard hard drives will do you fine. The Promise Pegasus R6, in short, is professional-grade equipment.

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Design and Features
The Pegasus R6 looks like many other multi-drive external boxes. It's a big metal block that will take up a lot of space on your desk (about 10 by 7.25 by 9.75 inches, HWD). The R6 needs to be that big to accommodate the six full-sized 3.5-inch spinning hard drives working in sync to give you loads of fast, secure storage. The drives are all mounted on trays that both lock and slide in/out easily. These trays will be familiar to any user who uses hot swappable hard drives in a server or workstation.The drives themselves are 7,200rpm 2TB hard drives. This is kind of surprising since as a group, they outperform an internal SSD (see performance below). Conventional wisdom would expect 10,000rpm drives or SSDs in this application, since individually SSDs and 10k drives tend to have higher throughputs than 7,200rpm drives. However, working together, the six drives here are faster than any single drive.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388114,00.asp

[ProblemAgain]

the consolidation of disc manufacturers....

[GrandPaGardener]

And then there was THREE!

[ProblemAgain]

the idea behind some modern business is to not bother competing to supply a better quality...rather you just buy up your competition so everything available is the same chit...