With what do u save your life on? And why? I'm in need of an external hard drive. My uses would be for storage, and transportation to and from home studios, studios using mac and pc, pro tools and sonar, and so on...I just really need the end all hard drive that does it all. I'm looking at a maxtor one touch 4 plus, 500gigs & firewire. Thanx in advance! I can't buy something without ya'll at TB's approval anymore!
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With what do u save your life on?
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If you're looking for an as you say "end all hard drive", you are not going to find it at best buy or other big box stores. Go get yourself a GLYPH drive and be done with it.
General rules. (yes, other things "work", but not as well)
Go firewire 400 or 800 or eSATA. NO USB
Go 7200RPM or faster
Min. buffer size of 8mb
General rules. (yes, other things "work", but not as well)
Go firewire 400 or 800 or eSATA. NO USB
Go 7200RPM or faster
Min. buffer size of 8mb
I don't use USB or Firewire drives. I've got a couple internal hard drives rigged up as backups (don't ask me how... I hardly even remember anymore...) with a homemade adapter cable. Cheaper that way.
If you got the money though, go for the external.
If you got the money though, go for the external.
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I'm a big fan of FireWire800 and I have three external LaCie quad-interface drives at the moment. With four types of connections, it's nice to be able to hook the drives up to just about every computer out there. I've noticed that many of the major brands make you pick either USB or FW and esp. lately, they've dropped FW completely and are almost exclusively USB now. I have an older Powerbook that's still just USB 1.1 so a high-capacity USB hard drive is essentially useless to me. However FW800 cooks right along and is essential for high track count sessions and moving large audio and video files quickly.
While LaCie gets a lot of bad press, I haven't had a single issue with my d2 drives. I have an older triple-interface 250GB and two of the new 500GB quad-interface drives. The Glyph and G-Tech drives are also great drives but are at a higher price point. Many of them do not offer FW800 however and that's kept me from seriously considering them. The new, faster e-SATA protocol is out now but few laptops are utilizing it and for now at least, FW800 is king for me.
I'm a big fan of FireWire800 and I have three external LaCie quad-interface drives at the moment. With four types of connections, it's nice to be able to hook the drives up to just about every computer out there. I've noticed that many of the major brands make you pick either USB or FW and esp. lately, they've dropped FW completely and are almost exclusively USB now. I have an older Powerbook that's still just USB 1.1 so a high-capacity USB hard drive is essentially useless to me. However FW800 cooks right along and is essential for high track count sessions and moving large audio and video files quickly.
While LaCie gets a lot of bad press, I haven't had a single issue with my d2 drives. I have an older triple-interface 250GB and two of the new 500GB quad-interface drives. The Glyph and G-Tech drives are also great drives but are at a higher price point. Many of them do not offer FW800 however and that's kept me from seriously considering them. The new, faster e-SATA protocol is out now but few laptops are utilizing it and for now at least, FW800 is king for me.
LaCie works fine, methinks. That's the brand we use at work and I've never had a problem (though I should knock on wood... it is inevitable that an IT tech will eventually see EVERYTHING computer related in his general vicinity break...).
The key to keeping your data safe is keeping a lot of copies. I do work in IT and I have seen pretty much everything go bad. The key is not suffering catastrophic data loss, where you can't recover it. Just 1 device or backing up to CD once in a while isn't very reliable really. LaCie is ofted touted as a reliable HD brand, I saw 2 of their "rugged" drives (which are significantly more expensive than their normal ones) die without abuse in 1 week. Consequently, I've seen people on forums ripping on the WD externals, and I have 2 of the 500 gig ones I use all the time with no problems. Personally I choose WD most of the time because short of boutique HD solutions, WD drives are ALWAYS the most reliable desktop drives at every company I've ever worked at. I would never buy a Maxtor, Hitachi, IBM, or any of the non high-end Seagate drives.
There are quite a lot of options to have nearly 100% reliability of your data, but none of them are affordable or "set it and forget it". There's people that work full-time swapping tapes and making sure systems like those stay up. For home use, I think the most cost effective system would be to store all your important data on at least 2 HD's (preferably a mirror set), and backing up the really important stuff to DVD's as regularly as needed. Ideally burn multiple copies of those DVD backups and store them in multiple locations (ie your house, your office, a friends house, safe deposit box).
There are quite a lot of options to have nearly 100% reliability of your data, but none of them are affordable or "set it and forget it". There's people that work full-time swapping tapes and making sure systems like those stay up. For home use, I think the most cost effective system would be to store all your important data on at least 2 HD's (preferably a mirror set), and backing up the really important stuff to DVD's as regularly as needed. Ideally burn multiple copies of those DVD backups and store them in multiple locations (ie your house, your office, a friends house, safe deposit box).
Why not backup onto some server space?
http://www.jungledisk.com/
Maybe not the quickest you can access, but its pretty safe. Hell, if your house burns down you could still access the recordings
Or add another internal harddrive, set as a RAID1 setup with you current one?
Chances of both drives dying must be pretty slim!
http://www.jungledisk.com/
Maybe not the quickest you can access, but its pretty safe. Hell, if your house burns down you could still access the recordings
Or add another internal harddrive, set as a RAID1 setup with you current one?
Chances of both drives dying must be pretty slim!
True that!
One of the nice things with the Glyph drives, (050 and key drives) is they have a 1 year free overnight replacement, and I believe a 1 year free data recovery service as well, on top of the regular 5 year warranty.
Fortunatly, I have never had to use their warranty service. I guess that's a good thing.
All that being said, all things have the potential to break. So backup the backup and then back that up again if it's really important stuff. (I usually save to my external glyph drive, then to CD and/or DVD depending on size. And sometimes I save on 2 DVD's.
Over the top.......probably.
+100 Always make multiple backups.
All media can fail hard drives, CD's media can go bad, stuff can be made on one piece of hardware and unreadable another even of the same type.
I would have some RAID 1 setup at home, then depending on size burn CD or DVD to make copies to transport. If you have a lot of stuff to transport then a external drive with multiple interfaces. I usually make my own. You can buy cases with about any interface and put your own drive in. I have these with hard drives and others with CD/DVD burners in them so I have whatever I need where ever I go.
Another reason I make my own is if the interface dies I can pop open the case and take the hard drive out and put it in another case or even a computer and pull data off of it.
Thank ya'll...Sweet Jesus! And the homework never ends! Gotta go-go-google! How do I Know if my computer{compaq presario sr1130nx} can use RAID 1...
Onboard RAID is usually only found on server or some workstation class machines. You can get external drives that have two hard disk in RAID 1. Most OS's can do software RAID so if you have two hard drives in your computer you could mirror them.
You need to figure out how much data you have. how much do you plan to move from location to location. Those answers will help determine what to use for backup and moving files around.
You can get an expansion RAID card for less than $50. The more important thing is that you get identical hard drives for your array.
Yeah, I back up sessions on DVD-R's, and it's really cheap considering...but yeah, a 500 gig external can be had so cheap these days. I don't mind using USB 2.0 either, but yeah, Firewire is real nice.
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In a couple o' months/years I'm*hoping I'll be using Solid State HD's... things that can turn/move aren't your best bet when you need to move stuff around...
but right now: way to expensive!
so I'm using 3 external disks, 1 for my mac mini(Time Machine) and 2 for my music(collection and own recordings...)
but right now: way to expensive!
so I'm using 3 external disks, 1 for my mac mini(Time Machine) and 2 for my music(collection and own recordings...)
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I have a pair of Maxtor 750 GB OneTouch III Firewire 800/Firewire 400/USB 2.0 drives. I back up everything to both and burn DVDs of the stuff I'm working on. The Maxtors have a sustained data transfer rate of 73 mbps (FW 800) and also a One-Touch backup feature for the end of the day. They also have this great "System Rollback" feature (kind of like Apple's Time Machine). Good stuff, never had a problem.
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yeah or use the bigger drive as the second disk, this way you will still only have the space that disk 1 has, but could be a quick and easy solution...
I have a computer in a server rack in my basement which does nothing but hold data. It's hooked to a UPS and has a four disk RAID array. The disks are enterprise-grade and are in well cooled hotswap drive bays.
I still back stuff up. Because you never know.
I still back stuff up. Because you never know.
