This!
This!
I have a Cavalry external that has been dead reliable for several years. I worked in IT for a very long time, and all HDD's had problems. For the 1 brand that MIGHT have had less than the others, I'd go with WD. But with that said, those broke too. I have a 120gb maxtor in my PC I use for storage of stuff I don't use often, and it's never made an odd noise and it's probably 6-7 years old at least.
+1 for any nas setup - can be found cheap online for what you get
any drive will fail, in the end it's brand preference. Every drive has moving parts, every drive generates heat. Do yourself a favor and leave it on constantly.
any drive will fail, in the end it's brand preference. Every drive has moving parts, every drive generates heat. Do yourself a favor and leave it on constantly.
What about SSDs? No moving parts on them.
Still have a far higher $$$$/GB ratio than traditional drives.
OP, here's an explanation of the terms we keep using:
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It means tying two or more drives together to improve reliability, throughput, or both. The two you're going to be interested in are RAID 1, which is where half the disks mirror the other half (example: if you have two disks in a RAID 1, they both contain the same data. If you lose one, just put in a new disk and the old one copies to the new one.), and RAID 5, where you have 3 or more disks, and if you lose one then its replacement can be repopulated from the other disks (but if you lose more than one, you've lost data). There are other RAID levels but they're not really suited for your purposes.
NAS - Network Attached Storage. It's a file system that you connect to over a network. As far as this thread is concerned, "NAS enclosure" just means an enclosure that holds many drives and manages them in a RAID. There are enclosures like this that attach using Ethernet, USB, etc. Some of them might not technically qualify as a "NAS" but whatever.
ahahha Thanks, I am so out of date. I bought a 250g since 2003 and still working until today. Very impressive.
I think the 'I' in RAID stands for independent, not inexpensive.
The original stood for inexpensive, but it was thought to be a misnomer, so changed to independent which isnt any better in my opinion, Redundant Array of Independent Disks sounds like an oxymoron. But, either would be correct.
It was originally "inexpensive," since the idea was to tie several cheaper drives together to mimic the performance of more expensive models. It was later changed to "independent" because people figured out that you could tie several high-end drives together to get really high-end performance.
I still say inexpensive because I'm an OG.
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E2: Ha I'm not that much of an OG. The original paper proposing RAID was part of the proceedings of a conference that happened when I was about 10 months old.
Thanks for explaining this as I was completely lost. I should be able to get buy with a 500GB, so it sounds like I would be better off buying two of them and linking them as you suggest.
Time for more research on my part.
David
