Hi Remy, Your posts are so appreciated.
I'm in the USA so I'm not sure how 500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ translates into American dollars? Is it easier to detect which NAS drives are Red than trying to ascertain that with WD? Thank you so much, Charles. From: Remy Gauthier <remygauth...@yahoo.com> To: charles meyer <reachmepl...@gmail.com>, "users@global.libreoffice.org" < users@global.libreoffice.org> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:10:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and other content Hi, Hard drives will die (even SSDs). While MTBF indicates long periods of time, some will still experience drive failures with corresponding loss of data (been there, done that). If you want to use something external to store your data while still having very low probability of data loss, I would recommend buying a NAS. Most of these units will have multiple disks used to ensure the loss of one hard disk will not negatively affect you. Get a two-bay unit operated in RAID 1 at a minimum; this means you can loose one disk and keep on going until you replace the faulty disk. Units with more bays will provide additional levels of protection, but at a higher initial investment (ASUSTOR 2-bay units go for about 500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ for 4-bay plus hard disks - my IT buddy would probably tell you to go for WD Red) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
