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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Looking to get a disk to store backups of various things on, not least > whilst I finally get around to a long overdue reinstall of my desktop box. > > I'm thinking the local Tesco's last few Maxtor 500GB hard drives look > good value, and barely more than one would pay retail for a comparable > SATA drive. > > Call me a skeptic but anyone seeing issues with the very high density > disks available? Anyone recommend for or against any devices. I mean the > important data I can also burn to CD, that which isn't already on two > computers, both with mirroring..... > > Otherwise it looks like yet another trip to Tesco's. > We've had pretty good luck with Maxtor drives but as Rob said, lots of little files can be problematic. All removable drives I have encountered are prone to issues via usb. I have had much better resiliency with firewire and or ethernet. The only drives I have not yet experienced any issues with are Lacie drives. www.lacie.com regards, KevinT -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html