On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:51:07PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: > david wrote: >> Every external firewire/usb drive i've used has ended up giving me hard >> drive failure, and in some cases heart failure. Other people whose >> opinion I respect have come to the same conclusion. I get the impression >> that the problem has to do with power supply on the external device, but >> I haven't figured that out for certain. >> >> I haven't used Lacies. Are they better? >> >> > Lacies are better. Still fail after about 1 year though on average. > They are cheap enough to just buy more of them and rotate them. I use > backupninja with rdiff-backup and labelmounts to handle the magic. > Backupninja is just a tricky shell script which gives some uniformity to > backup scripts - worth checking out.
just had another look at the site and they have a 4 drive external drive, that attached by esata. That looks cool as well, I am presuming it takes normal sata II drives so I expand in the future > > dave > > -- "There's Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from The New York Times." - George W. Bush 09/04/2000 Naperville, IL to Dick Cheney, thinking the mic was off
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