Thanks for your help when I ran out of room

[Eric Oyen]

hmmmm.
Well, the Seagate 10 TB drive I have is 3 years old and still chugging. However, windows won’t see it and only OS X and Linux will even do anything with it. However, given recent experiences with other “brand name” drives, I am starting to think that perhaps having a number of USB flash drives set to write once and read many will probably be much more appropriate for long term storage. The nice thing about USB sticks is that they will work with virtually any OS or device that supports them and won’t require anything other than power supplied by the USB port.

-Eric
From the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Storage Solutions Dept.

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 1:46 PM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> Michael via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:36:47 -0400
> 
>> Wonderful! I was deleting things and elated home.
>> Now I have plenty of room.... until I restored with my backups.\
>> 
>> In any case,  what is a good external drive?
> 
> Never use Seagate. Friends don't let friends use Seagate. They go bad
> too often and too soon. Most of my external drives are Western Digital.
> 
> You didn't mention whether this is a laptop or desktop, but if it's a
> desktop you might want to use an internal 7200 RPM drive. I typically
> use an SSD or NVMe drive for the root partition, and a quality Western
> Digital (I used WD Red last time) 7200 RPM drive for /home and other
> data-centric partitions. My setup boots fast, runs programs at
> lightning speed, and yet I have plenty of room on the WD Red to put my
> data files.
> 
> SteveT
> 
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