[mac4theblind] Re: external storage devices

  • From: Benjamin Blatter <benjaminblatter@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:36:46 +0200

Hi Andy
Lately I made a nasty experience with an external USB drive. Fortunatelly luck was with me this time. But from now on I don't buy any external drives anymore. Because if the controller of the drive suddenly dies it's a pain to get the drive out and recover your data. Now I buy desktop drives like a western digital green and put the drive into an external case like the icy box IB-366STU3+B. Yes, it's a little bit more expensive but recovery might be easier this way.
SSD probably will be our future. But I'm not sure about using SSD for large backups. At least I wouldn't solely depend on them. No moving parts doesn't automatically mean a SSD cannot die. And from what I heart if they die they do it very quick and it's hard to recover your data. This medium is awesome but still young. There are many changes happening with the replacement of SATA III. No one really knows from experience how many years the data of a backup SSD will remain. And right now they still are rather expensive. For about 3 or 4 very expensive SSD until you reach 3 TB you can get easily an external case and two not so expensive mechanical drives with 3 or even 4 TB. Use one for your daily usage and the other for backup. 

Ben
Am 08.10.2013 15:28, schrieb Mackenzie Andrew (EAST CHESHIRE NHS TRUST - RJN): 
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Hi david, can you give me further info.

Andy

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*From:*mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *David Hilbert Poehlman 
*Sent:* 08 October 2013 12:30
*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 <mailto: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

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*From:*mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *David Hilbert Poehlman 
*Sent:* 07 October 2013 09:55
*To:* mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [mac4theblind] Huey Lewis and the news

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