Hard disks

Fri Apr 19 14:20:18 EDT 2002

I have more than a few seagate IDE drives that seem to have been chugging
along for over 2 years.  I like them, they haven't given me any trouble.

Anthony

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I am considering buying a new hard disk for my Linux PC for the explicit 
> purpose of backup. 
> In the past, I have been burned by removable devices (tapes and disks). 
> Also, in the past, I have had good luck with Western Digital. 
> Currently EIDE 100GB are running about $130. WD seems to be about $20 
> higher than Maxtor. 
> My strategy is to have one backup HD and one primary HD, and maybe use the 
> 8GB as a backup boot system. 
> The reason I don't like tapes is:
> 1. In the past I have found them to be unreliable. When I have had to 
> recover, I found the tapes had problems.
> 2. I've got to remember to leave a tape in the drive for overnight auto 
> backup. 
> 3. Manual backups take too much time. 
> However, tapes to provide a compact copy of data that can be placed 
> offsite. 
> 
> With a big hard drive, I can save several backup generations, and mount 
> only the backup partition when actually doing a backup and recovery. (I 
> actually use rsync to mirror my wife's Windows system). As far as my home 
> directory, I back it up nightly onto the second drive as a compressed tar 
> archive. 
> In any case, if I have a hard disk failure I should be able to recover 
> quickly. 
> 
> So, what I would like to hear is reliability of Maxtor vs. Western Digital.
>  
> 
> 
> What I currently do is to backup my home and downloads directory to an 8GB 
> drive and my wife's PC to my primary drive.   
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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