On 3/1/19 5:03 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 05:06 -0800, Todd Chester via users wrote:
On 2/28/19 4:41 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I have persistent problems with small USB hard drives that I use for
backup.
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.
Cost of a Seagate Ultra Plus Slim is $60.00
Cost of a Rosewill case + WD Red drive is $116.00
Rosewill+WD is almost twice the cost of Seagate. On the other hand
Rosewill+WD stands a good chance of working for a while, but the
Seagate will probably fail soon.
So it looks like I'm building a box.
Good exposition on why the single units fail so much. There
is no expense they have not shaved.
Also, there is a considerable cost in constantly replacing
units. And not to mention if you need your data back and it
is not there.
I tore a WD el-cheap-o drive case apart to get at the
el-cheap-o drive inside so I could mount it myself on
a USB3-SATA adapter and recover a customers data.
He got really, really lucky.
On the Rosewill case, also note that you can go eSATA, which will
give you native hard drive speed, just like you mounted the
drive inside your computer.
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