Dan, with the advent of SSD drives, you might look into using those type drives.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations on reliable external hard drives? At > Louisville Magazine we seem to go through them like candy, especially the > ones that we use for photo storage and backup. Now, we are using them much > more heavily than most people would — we write and read several gigabytes of > new data almost every day. We keep a backup of all files on the main drive > that is automatically updated every night (essentially giving us always a > duplicate of the main one). > > I have used Western Digitals, LaCies, Seagates, Maxtors and various other > brands, and they all seem to fail regularly and frequently. I usually buy > them at Best Buy or wherever I can find the most bytes for the least bucks. > At this point I rarely get anything less than a terabyte, which under the > best circumstances will hold only about a year's worth of photos. > > I'm frustrated by the amount of data corruption and/or mechanical problems > that these drives are having. It is rare that one lasts a full year without > developing some kind of problem that requires replacing it. Because we keep > multiple backups we haven't lost anything yet, but I'm afraid it's only a > matter of time until we do. > > Is there some REALLY GOOD external hard drive out there that would give us > better reliability, even if it cost more? Or some other type of data storage > (burning DVDs for backup is not really an option, as we simply don't have > the time or manpower to do that on any regular basis)? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. > > Dan Crutcher > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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