Am looking for a new HD or two for my desktop, and this caught my eye:-
Desktop 3.5" SATA
6Gb/s Hard DrivesFROM £42.95 (£51.54 inc VAT)
And yes, it does appear to be 6Gb.
Am I missing something?
So if the data transfer rate is 6Gb/s - what is their capacity?
It seems to be the going rate. EBuyer do it for £49.98 inc VAT.
It's SATA III so you won't get 6Gb unless your motherboard supports it.
Another Dave
Ah - so that's what it refers to.
BTW, what on earth is your newsreader? It seems seriously broken.
6Gb/s
thats the data transfer rate
Thats what a seagate barracuda on SATA does these days if the computer can handle it.
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£47.84 at
My supplier is always 15% more than the cheapest. OTOH he has never failed to take back something shagged but under guraantee without quibbling, and the last hard disk replacement came with free installation and testing..
You use ebuyer too? Maybe not as they only satisfy the always replace it without quibble clause.
I'm getting worried about these big drives, where the heck do you back them up and how long does it take. Is two and raid the answer still?
Brian
RAID isn't backup...
but yeah, two drives mirrored helps protect against disk failure. Beware exotic controllers though - if that goes pop you have two drives you can't access. Not sure how much of an issue that is these days.
Ideally you would be able to just use either drive if you suffer a failure.
If possible, raid and then backup to a 3rd drive that's offline (or even better, offsite)
Darren
RAID isn't a backup, if one gets corrupted or accidentally deleted the other immediately follows suit.
That has never been the answer.
What happens when the PSU blows both up, or someone steals it or you drop it on the floor or have a flood or a fire.
As a backup strategy raid is cr@p.
well forme, its a networked srver, and I simply mirror one disk to the other using rsync, which only backs up the days changes, under CRON takes about ten minutes at 5 a.m.
RAID is avialability, not backup. Ideally backup should be on a different machine at a different location.
Now calculate the average unrecoverable error probability by the capacity of the drive... It gets horribly close to one.
RAID's very nice. Until the controller goes titsup.
In message , Brian Gaff writes
In my case I backup to an external drive (when I get a roundtuit it will become a small NAS an live elsewhere on the network) and online with Crashplan.
Intial backups may take sometime (esp. online with slow upload speeds), but after that only new data is backed up (I've no idea how long it takes, as it all happens automatically)
Which is why I prefer software RAID.
So you prefer a solution where other drivers and even application software can make it go t*ts up?
Don't even do that.
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