On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 18:14 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 20:48 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > You pays your money and you takes your choice. If you want every > > backup of your 10GB home directory to take up another 10GB of space, > > go for it. Most people don't actually want that. They assume (naively > > or not) that the backup medium is itself sufficiently reliable, for > > example I'm doing it on a NAS configured with mirrored disks, which is > > fine for my purposes. YMMV of course. > > In my case, I was being diligent and backing up things to one of those > external USB drives, and the external drive turned out to be a lemon, > while the originals are all quite fine. I didn't buy an unusual brand > of disc, either, it was a Seagate. I'd always been impressed by them, > before. On the other hand, every Western Digital drive I had, and > friends, lasted little more than a year or two. Ironically, the NAS disk that failed was a 1TB Seagate unit. OTOH I've (touch wood) had good results with WD Caviar Black disks. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
