On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:35:20 -0400 Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> I used to use a rotating set of 2TB 2.5" external USB hard drives. None of > them ever failed on me over about three years use, although three out of > four they were generally only accessed every week or two. I've now > switched to three 4TB 2.5" drives: the heavily used one of those is now > stuttering (confirming my pre-existing bias against Seagate ... the > previous set were WD). The 2.5" spinning drives are somewhat more > expensive than the 3.5", but they're much smaller - and, important in this > use case, more built for movement and frequent spin-up/spin-down. I have been using an internal 4TB hard drive as my nightly backup. I am now on to my second hard drive. Periodically, I transfer my backup to a 50GB Blu-Ray disk. Obviously, this constrains my /home partion to an extent that may be unacceptable to you. On a couple of occasasion now, I have pulled out months old disks to recover files I unknowingly deleted. I like to permanently archive my backups. I am getting concerned about Blu-Ray burners. Is there another cheap, high capacity medium out there? -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk