On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Digiital aka David <digiital@gmail.com> wrote:
No question go for Harddrive. BUT don't put your trust on just one drive either. The power up and power down puts a lot of strain on the drive, you are just better to leave the drive on all the time. Better option would be a NAS with RAID setup.
I have had a few drives gone belly up, lucky I had them setup as RAID and had a backup of the backup.
Its a raid array I'm trying to back up. What this issue (failed array) has taught me is that hard discs aren't enough!!! A tip - - - some of the drives marketed as applicable to NAS raid arrays really aren't applicable. You need to be purchasing drives that have ERC or error recovery control. I was slapped upside the head because I had drives that didn't have that but when I bought the drives (early 2012) NOBODY was talking about that. So now starts the search for effective backup media!! Dee