At 03:55 PM -0400 06/26/2005, Daniel wrote:
Are any hard drive manufacturers significantly better than others
today? I want to get a Firewire drive, and looking at Pricewatch I
see 250GB Hitachi units for ~$120. How's Hitachi? Do ALL Hitachi
drives have the annoying seek feature? What about Western Digital,
Seagate, and others?
I've had reasonably good luck with all manufacturers, except WD.
I strongly recommend staying away from the really big drives, esp the
200 GB and bigger. They have impressive MTBF ratings, but seem to
die too soon in actual use.
YMMV.
I plan on buying two for the purposes of backing up my systems. Two
will allow me to have a rotating backup - I'll switch the drives
weekly.
I'm really buying this to back up only my iMac (80GB HD; 65GB used),
but practically I'll back up the PowerBook (80GB HD; 60 GB used) ...
and also my other systems (various PowerMacs and other things), but
those are all miniscule compared to the iMac and PowerBook.
How much of that is OS/apps - which really don't need to be backed up
regularly or even at all?
On a monthly basis, how much of the user data is "new"?
Once you do a full backup, you only need to backup the new data
thereafter. If that new data is only a few gigs here and there,
DVD-RW ($1/disc, 25c/GB) or DVD-R (50c/disc, 12.5c/GB), will be more
cost effective than a HD (SATA's are down to 50 or 60c/GB). AND by
using removable medias instead of a HD, you're 1) not writing over
previously backed up data, so you can go back and 2) more convenient
to off-site them.
FWIW,
- Dan.
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