Hi Joshua, Thank you so much for your post.
How did you know you were buying A "Red" WD drive? Thank again, Charles. From: Joshua Kramer <joskra42.l...@gmail.com> To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Bcc: Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:46:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and other content > needs. I have seen the "red" drives as large as 8-TB for $400 USD. The > 4-TB run about $150. If I have the money, I would replace my current drives > with these drives. I'm on the extreme side of safe-data paranoia. :) For my documents, photos, and source code (basically stuff I create): 1. It lives on a SSD in my primary laptop 2. It's copied to an external 1TB WD RED drive that I keep in a safe bolted to the floor. 3. Once a year, I create a Blu-Ray M-DISC of that year's stuff. You can get a 100GB M-DISC (that can go from boiling water to dry ice without damage) for $20. 4. I have a home server that runs a dozen or so VM's. It has two 4TB WD RED drives in a RAID-1. I sourced the drives separately- one from Micro Center, the other from Amazon. This is because statistically, the chance that any two drives will fail at approximately the same time is MUCH higher if both drives are from the same batch. So I ensured that each drive is from a different batch. I have a LUKS encrypted partition that I will occasionally mount and rsync my newest stuff to, then unmount again. -- 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