I want one,
Seagate Ships 6 TB Hard Drive doing 7200 RPM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3141692/posts
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.
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.
Backing up your computer is essential to protect against viruses and malware as well as mechanical failure of the hard drive. Your digital photos are especially irreplaceable. An external hard drive like this makes back-up quick and easy, but store that external hard drive securely. If your house is destroyed in a fire or blown apart by a tornado or hurricane that external drive sitting by your computer could well be destroyed too. Cloud storage is one option, but simply backing up your digital photos to a flash drive(s) and keeping them in your bank safety deposit box is a cheap alternative too.
More junk from a drive manufacturer. This garbage started with LaCie’s Bigger Disk with a RAID0 of 2 drives created by the bridgeboard inside the enclosure. Now Seagate bought LaCie and is bringing that crap to their own product lines.
Problem is, the RAID is created by the firmware on the bridge. Break the bridge and you break the RAID. You have to move the drives to an identical bridge to remount the RAID and access the data.
Far better to just use a single 4TB drive enclosure and a single drive. If you have to use RAID0, do it with your operating system in software RAID. That way you can move the drives to anything and the RAID will still mount.
I have nothing against a RAID0 - like anything, with a backup, it is fine. I have a lot of complaint towards firmware based RAIDs that are too easy to break and too hard to fix,
Rick