Whatever you do, stay the heck away from the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 harddrives, no matter if they are 500gb, 1TB, 1.5TB, etc. I learned an expensive lesson in impatience. I've always preached to go with Western Digital and to keep a good backup. However, there I was, in Best Buy on a payday, and they happened to be out of WD, so impatiently I bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB HD for $149. I took it home, dumped ALL of my archives onto the drive (years of baby pics, documents, movies, music, etc...EVERYTHING), and then began building a file/backup server on a second computer, to serve as a backup server on all computers in the house. Of course, I didn't rush to do this... Not even two weeks later, the new drive started clicking every couple seconds...so I frantically rushed to finish the backup server... Needless to say, I was too late - I started receiving S.M.A.R.T. errors on the drive, and when I attempted to copy files off of it, it would just hang the system. I sent the drive off to a data recovery center and they want $834, plus the cost of a new drive, plus tax. The moral of the story is three-fold - 1) be patient and be rewarded; 2) BACK UP YOUR JUNK! and 3) NEVER BUY SEAGATE - buy Western Digital! --James
On Monday 06 July 2009 05:14:29 pm John Heinen wrote:
A large retailer is offering a Seagate 250 mb backup hard drive at a fair price, including various programs for backups etc, for windows only. I know very litle about backups except copying files to a cd/dvd. How would I backup Ubuntu and other Linux's to such a drive? John
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