On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:35:20 -0400 Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I used to use a rotating set of 2TB 2.5" external USB hard drives. None of them ever failed on me over about three years use, although three out of four they were generally only accessed every week or two. I've now switched to three 4TB 2.5" drives: the heavily used one of those is now stuttering (confirming my pre-existing bias against Seagate ... the previous set were WD). The 2.5" spinning drives are somewhat more expensive than the 3.5", but they're much smaller - and, important in this use case, more built for movement and frequent spin-up/spin-down.
I have been using an internal 4TB hard drive as my nightly backup. I am now on to my second hard drive. Periodically, I transfer my backup to a 50GB Blu-Ray disk. Obviously, this constrains my /home partion to an extent that may be unacceptable to you. On a couple of occasasion now, I have pulled out months old disks to recover files I unknowingly deleted. I like to permanently archive my backups. I am getting concerned about Blu-Ray burners. Is there another cheap, high capacity medium out there? -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson