On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 05:06:38AM -0800, Community support for Fedora users wrote: > I have noticed that my customers who go out and buy external > USB mechanical drive drives for backup never have any > "last". They always go bad. Some so bad that they hang > the USB port and the computer won't boot or is really > slow. SMART sheds tears. The drives and just *TOO* cheap. The retail-grade drives in enclosures, yes, often. > What I have been lately, is building my own with drives > with Rosewill backup cases (RX304-APU3-35B). I populate > them with Western Digital drives. Had one Blue drive > go bad. I have since switched to Red and Black drives > and haven't had an issue. I'm a consultant focusing on SMB, and have taken a different tack for businesses. I've noticed three consistent theme over the years: o Tape is still *expensive* to set up and maintain. o Clients hate tape. o Clients won't change tapes or disks. Given this, after some success with USB and eSATA attached RAID arrays--until the cheap overseas electronics got too cheap and unreliable--I've hit on my final model. Synology NAS--usually a 2-disk unit--using Ironwolf NAS drives. (You can use WD Red depending on performance, price and preference.) Size to the client's server(s), mount using iSCSI. StarTech (or other vendor--find your sweet spot) USB 3.0 HDD docking station, and a rotation of bare Ironwolf drives. Back up to the NAS during the week, and once/week to the current removable HDD. Client only has to remember to swap one disk, once/week; most will do that. You get backup in depth, much more reliable drives, and a stable and reliable primary backup. And yes, it costs some money, but far less than tape. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
