[mac4theblind] Re: external storage devices
- From: Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mack for the blind list blind list <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 06:15:25 -0700
I love my western digital elements drives. Nice and quiet and fast. and this
thing has been on for almost 2 years straight and it has hardly gotten warm. it
is a 2 tb drive that holds about 900 gigs of music. Works grate.
On Oct 8, 2013, at 5:48 AM, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Should be a couple hundred per gig maybe a bit better if you shop it around.
>
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:41 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not that rich. I need three t just to get off the ground. How much
>> would 3t of ssd cost?
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I hear that, I'm done with rotating media myself as well.
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Edward Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I use samsung drives for backups and rebuilds. to me, very reliable. have
>>> used seagates and WD's for a while but WD drives these days are (woh,
>>> nearly said something shocking) rather nasty…
>>>
>>> depending on storage needs, performance, etc. samsung 2.5" hdd's do perform
>>> rather well. but I've been spoilt by SSD drives and wouldn't go back.
>>>
>>> lew
>>>
>>> On 8 Oct 2013, at 13:24, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We literally would have smoke poor out of drives or even have flames in
>>>> some cases, especially early on. I was running a net news (NNTP) server
>>>> on Sun Sparc hardware and we were trying to find a home for 100+ gigs per
>>>> day of mostly binaries and pics although we took the full news feed.
>>>> (over 32,000 groups) Disk access was so continuous across the whole array
>>>> it sounded like white noise almost or tens of computers at full boot
>>>> hitting their disks as fast as they could. I was happy to sell off that
>>>> part of the business, lots of hardware burn for little money.
>>>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:07 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> gives a whole new meaning to burning a disc.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The only thing to watch out with WD is they ship some shady batches at
>>>>> times. They are good about replacements though and as mentioned, the
>>>>> customer service is quite good. I used to find IBM the best back in the
>>>>> day, WD drives would burst in to flames on my news servers, but most
>>>>> would do to the seriously high load. Especially for external drives WD
>>>>> is a pretty good option.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 7:38 AM, Kliphton <kliphton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Never thought I would see this day, but it has come. For once I have to
>>>>>> agree with David. Western digital are the best JMO. I have 2 network
>>>>>> attached storage devices by them, and 2 external USB hard drives. One
>>>>>> of which I am running a copy of mavericks on. And none have ever failed
>>>>>> me. Not saying they are perfect, cause nothing is. But my experience
>>>>>> with WD has been better than with anyone else’s brand. Great customer
>>>>>> service too, and gives 2 to 4 years warrantee on their products
>>>>>> depending on what size it is. HTH
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kliphton Senior
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>>>>>> [Text only] 914-820-2298
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Hilbert
>>>>>> Poehlman
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 6:30 AM
>>>>>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: external storage devices
>>>>>>
>>>>>> H andy,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess this depends on how much music you have and what the size of the
>>>>>> hd in the mbp is. almost all external usb hds are good. you can't go
>>>>>> wrong with western digital as a start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 8, 2013, at 5:08 AM, Mackenzie Andrew (EAST CHESHIRE NHS TRUST -
>>>>>> RJN) <andrew.mackenzie4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all, I am thinking of transferring my music cooection
>>>>>> onto my macbook pro. To safe memory would it be better for me to save
>>>>>> this collection on anexternalstorage device? If so can anyone tell me
>>>>>> which would be more compatible with the macbook?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Hilbert
>>>>>> Poehlman
>>>>>> Sent: 07 October 2013 09:55
>>>>>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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