External hard drive - recommendations?

Software update fucked it.

Ahh... well that sucks. I told a friend back in 2006 how to defrag and clean up his laptop's HD. He did as I instructed, but didn't back anything up first. He lost a shit-ton of family photos, and blamed me.

You guys are running around in circles.

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Originally Posted by SuccessfulRoach

You guys are running around in circles.

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You're back DD? Nothing to contribute?

I backed up a Win10 laptop to my NAS with the built-in "Windows 7 Backup". Averaged 940mbps (117.5 MBps) transfer speed to schlep 180 gigs across a gigE LAN. Happiness is a good network.

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Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive

You're back DD? Nothing to contribute?

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Don't roaches think running around in circles is fkn awesome?

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Originally Posted by DJSapp

External portable RAID array? I don't know if that's a thing, but a NAS device would suit you nicely if the storage can stay put at home, or doesn't move very often. Most are bare devices and then you can buy a proper HD separately. I've setup two of these at my network of dental establishments using Synology device with WD Red NAS drive. The Synology drives can also be setup to automatically backup to the cloud via dropbox, amazon glacier, etc.

i.e this x2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...Q&gclsrc=aw.ds

plus this
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I got this exact setup for my work. We needed remote access and Synology has pretty good software to get it done. Red drives seem to be the most reliable for storage. It was easy. It works. I had better shit to do than cobble together enclosures or do more research.

Having said that my OWC Mercury Elite Pro is chugging along just fine at home. But drives do just shit the bed from time to time.

Milspec hardware. Lol. Like ps3s

Gonna Hyundai up your bunker too?

Laugh all you want. My intel network is superior to ur little network
http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...playstation-3s

If I'm the top tgr avatar and tgr the top ski porn producer I guess that makes me...

Shroom should follow up any minute now

can't even pwn Halo on that b

weak

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I got this exact setup for my work. We needed remote access and Synology has pretty good software to get it done. Red drives seem to be the most reliable for storage. It was easy. It works. I had better shit to do than cobble together enclosures or do more research.

Having said that my OWC Mercury Elite Pro is chugging along just fine at home. But drives do just shit the bed from time to time.

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It works well, and combine it with a weekly automatic backup to Amazon glacier for deep storage if they fail. Best $2 a month you can spend to sleep easy that your data is safe out in the cloud if both drives go sour. Yeah, they'll charge more to pull it out, but at that point it's worth it, and dead simple to setup.

I have a Transcend. It's rubberized and rugged as shit!

I could take it in the back country, if there were computers there.

Also curious about what owc is going to do for you...

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Originally Posted by ml242

Also curious about what owc is going to do for you...

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I'm sending the drive back to them (it's one year old, and has a three year warranty); they will inspect it, and probably send me a new one. We shall see.

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Originally Posted by highangle

Cost per TB in mass storage. My Solaris rpool is a 3-way mirror of overprovisioned ESXi datashares on 3 SSDs, but it's only 100GB. But my 17TB of lossless music and family video sits on rotating rust on another pool of the same Solaris system, and gets block-encrypted on AWS as backup.


SSDs also make great cache devices for large ZFS storage pools. So if you're running a VM in your laptop off a folder on your NAS that is cached with a SSD, the VM will boot and run at SSD speeds. (Yes, you can cache a specific folder like that with ZFS.)

And if you're slinging big data in your bedroom and doing a lot of sync writes, slc nand is really good for intent logs (aka power-safe write cache).

But an SSD doesn't stream a movie to a home theater or upload shit to Crashplan any faster or better than a RAID array of HDDs, so why spend the $$?

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It's about failure rates with mechanical HDD's with me. I've had a couple fail, it's worth it to me for the extra cost, time is money.

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lol the tech elitist saga continues

SKB case?

New replacement drive arrived today; excellent service from OWC.