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Need one that will hold up to a terrabite.....any suggestions...? looking at around the £60 mark.....

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For £60 you should be able to find one that holds 2TB. I'm sure I've seen western digital ones going for around that price
 
would suggest you pay a bit more and go for a RAID option......
 
Do you need it to be bus powered?
 
Western Digital are ok. I have a few of their MyBook drives.

I would avoid anything from Seagate though as I've found their quality to be lacking. I've had several die on me.
 
youd be better off running 2 separate drives with the same data so you have protection against deletion and corruption. along with enclosure/controller failure.
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So I need to purchase 2 external hard drives then!?!?!:thinking:

I take it you've had a problem in the past then?
 
CATALOGUEKID said:
So I need to purchase 2 external hard drives then!?!?!:thinking:

I take it you've had a problem in the past then?
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you dont need to, but its good practice to keep your data on 2 separate physical devices syncd up with something like allway sync or robocopy in case 1 fails.

hard drives are mechanical devices and can fail without warning.
 
neil_g said:
youd be better off running 2 separate drives with the same data so you have protection against deletion and corruption. along with enclosure/controller failure.
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Whilst I agree on the deletion (to an extent), with RAID1 a controller failure generally won't result in data loss.

Saying all of this, my photos are backed up with 2x RAID6 QNaps (not that I am a paranoid)
 
neil_g said:
wanna bet.. ive seen it happen.

all attached drives, garbage. and that was a server grade array controller :)
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Gotta agree with that one, I've seen it too. It was one of the few single points of failure on a system, and all the others could be replaced easily, with only minimal downtime and loss of data.
 
neil_g said:
both raid 1 and raid 5 arrays that were in use on the server.

full restore from tape was needed.
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Then that is the worst RAID controller I have ever heard of. RAID1 drives can be removed from the array and run standalone so a controller destroying RAID1 drives is quite a bad show.
 
I've been using raid since the 90s remember scsi? In all that time I've never had a raid controller take out a hdd. As back up for my photos are 2 x 2 tb hdds in mirror raid all enclosed in a nas case.

I've lost hdds and I've been able to recreate the 2 nd drive without problem
 
Dune said:
I've been using raid since the 90s remember scsi?
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me too. :)

In all that time I've never had a raid controller take out a hdd
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doesnt mean its not possible or wont happen. i mean if its that reliable why does nobody souly rely on RAID and have tape libraries not died off?

anyway.. point is, data on 2 separate physical devices :)
 
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bought a 1.5tb iomega from pc world the other day for £69, the 1tb were £49
 
OP, yes, that WD one is fine. I've got a whole stack of the exact same ones sitting on my desk...
 
inkiboo said:
Which is not always practical. Data is safe on 2 physcal different RAIDed arrays.
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im guessing youre meaning 2 arrays off the same controller? in which case its not, ive told you ive seen failures. it happens.

if youre meaning 2 arrays off of separate controller, how is that different to 2 hard drives?

but anyway going around in circles a little so a final thought (ala Jerry Springer :D), everyones data is their own. its their own decision on how to store it with a level of protection they are comfortable..
 
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You misread what I had written.

2 physical seperate RAID arrays, for example in very basic terms two QNaps.

Where I was saying your solution of a two physical seperate drives is not practical is where you have more than the capacity of a single drive to store.

No-one should store their data in one place but in my view having your data stored across two RAID6 arrays is safer than storing on two standalone discs.
 
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