Another Hardrive went down!

[stephen barncard]

1. I've been warning people for years about WD drives. The worst. After
being burned a few times, by 2004 I've insisted on Seagate and have had one
fail out of 20. The MTBFs of the new generation of dense drives are nothing
short of amazing. And I run my drives HARD with video and audio work.

I don't use time machine.   I put all my work data on an external drive,
and create an identical drive and make incremental backups at the end of
the day. Data in pairs.

2.  I would likely use SSDs as 'work' drives. Put a project on there and
use for speedier rendering, OR use it as a boot drive for quick startups.
But never as an archive.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:

> Damn, I just had another Hard drive crash and burn. That's One computer
> and my two 'oldest' WD hard drives in two months. I will never buy another
> WD drive again. Period.
>
> What I lost was my 'daily' time machine backups this time. I had already
> just added a second new HD to the time machine setup when I got the new
> computer so I do have daily BU's since then but all the older ones are
> gone. Damn.
>
> Now this is why I also use Carbon Copy Clone since I like to separately
> back up my work folders on four drives AND still have a different Time
> Machine back up as well. I still have my CCC BU's the only thing I lost was
> my older monthly backups.
> Additionally I copy once a week by hand to a portable drive that I take
> with me offsite.
>
> I'm down to this setup now:
> One 1T HD that takes a Time Machine backup plus CCC backups - Full BU plus
> the two externals alternate every hour for daily BU's.
> One 2T HD that alternated Time Machine BU's plus CCC backups. - Full BU
> plus the two externals alternate every hour for daily BU's.
> One external Portable HD that has my Work folder and important documents
> backed up weekly - to take off site.
> Dropbox for my Work folder and important documents. - backed up daily to
> my Portable
> Google Drive for my Work folder and important documents. - backed up daily
> to my Portable
>
> I lost:
> WD drive 500 - was my Work and documents BU as well as some CCC BUs
> WD drive 1T - was my dedicated Time Machine backup - nothing else. This is
> the one that just Crashed and Burned.
>
> and of course I lost my Laptop which still runs but makes some really loud
> noises so I don't turn it on.
>
> I need to get another HD to dedicate to my Daily TM backups.
>
> Damn is all I got to say.
>
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>
>
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Stephen Barncard
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