usayit
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I've had two Acomdata's fail on me after about two years of usage. One such failure took out the firewire port on my Mac <GRRR>. Cheap IDE internal hard drives were inside.
I've had nothing but good results from LaCie. As such I've stuck to them. No matter what anyone tells you, no hard drive will run forever. THEY ALL FAIL. Its just a matter of "when" not "if".
Go for redundancy but don't stop there... you also should do back ups. One way I've recommended to friends is to buy a hard drive dock or adapter that takes internal hard drives. I found an eSATA one for under $50 and I've seen USB based ones for even less. Save the boxes and anti-static packages and label them indicating which rotation. You save the $$$ of externals over internals and I've seen internal hard drives go on sale more often (some stores will sell unbox OEMS) Just dock the hard drive, make your copies, and store back in the box. Send one to a neighbors house or stored at work just in case.
Me? I'm still old school and back to magnetic tape.... its familiar technology in my field (disaster recovery and data protection).
I've had nothing but good results from LaCie. As such I've stuck to them. No matter what anyone tells you, no hard drive will run forever. THEY ALL FAIL. Its just a matter of "when" not "if".
Go for redundancy but don't stop there... you also should do back ups. One way I've recommended to friends is to buy a hard drive dock or adapter that takes internal hard drives. I found an eSATA one for under $50 and I've seen USB based ones for even less. Save the boxes and anti-static packages and label them indicating which rotation. You save the $$$ of externals over internals and I've seen internal hard drives go on sale more often (some stores will sell unbox OEMS) Just dock the hard drive, make your copies, and store back in the box. Send one to a neighbors house or stored at work just in case.
Me? I'm still old school and back to magnetic tape.... its familiar technology in my field (disaster recovery and data protection).