Posted on 04/07/2014 8:52:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I want one,
Me too!
I noted this quote: ‘My job depends on how the technology performs’
How quaint. Now it depends on politics at many so-called technology companies.
Seagate Ships 6 TB Hard Drive doing 7200 RPM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3141692/posts
I'm using Buffalo now (and for the last few years) with no trouble - so haven't had to test their support process.
Translation: Your risk of total data loss has just doubled. Which may be acceptable for short-term backup purposes, but hardly for archival use. Not for me, then.
My story: I purchased a 3 Terabyte Seagate hard drive to back up a computer. I read the entire box very carefully prior to purchase as I wanted to make sure it was compatible with my software (XT) and to make sure that it would do exactly what I wanted, which was to back up my entire hard drive.
The advertising said it would back up all the files on your hard drive for you entire computer. Well IT DID NOT and the backup software it shipped with did not do as advertised.
What they should have said is that the backup software would back up all personal files that are “not shared.” So if you have a home “peer to peer” network, it will not backup any of those shared directories, partitions. When I called Seagate and asked how I could make it work as advertised on the box with the software they included, they told me it could not. I ended up buying an expensive other piece of backup software and using the 3 Terabyte Backup Agent as an external hard drive for which the backup program stores its data.
Never again, will I believe their advertising.
See #4 also.
The price of TB drives began at around $400 — the first one I ever saw — and not that many years ago. The warehouse club was carrying 4 tb Seagate backup drive systems for I think $139 not long ago, crazy cheap.
I recently got a synology 213j with a pair of the same drives. It’s very useful and safe with redundant drives on an inexpensive UPS. It shuts down after 5 minutes on backup power.
Very cool.
Wiki article on RAID HERE.
Tiger Direct RAID storage HERE
Also:
Excerpt from the pc Mag article...see link above:
The real draw is the USM adapter, which securely fastens to the rear of the drive in the same manner as the GoFlex line.
Drive is preformatted in NTFS ...byt can be reformatted....but the software suplied for the Laptop is /Windows,
Seagate Backup Plus for Mac 4TB USB 3.0 Storage Model STDU4000100
$179.99
Looking for non Mac.
See #15....unbeliveable.
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There are two physical HDDs in the case. Raid0 splits the data stream to both drives (i.e., one part of a file goes to one drive, another part of the file goes to the other drive) to improve transfer speed.
If one drive fails there will likely be mostly incomplete (useless) files on the other drive. All is lost when one drive fails. Two drives, double the risk of one failing.
The one you link to in post 11 only has one physical drive it looks like.
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