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Subject: Re: [OM] Amazon cloud drive
From: Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:10:35 -0500
I thought it couldn't happen to me... But my laptop crashed.
No backup!
Have a Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus sitting in opened box.
Pretty cool, huh?
Never hooked it up cause it's only 500gb.
Now I have zip.
Sob.
On Mar 3, 2016 10:29 AM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tina and Steve,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  My current external drive is a 750GB Western
Digital, and it has been very reliable.  But, with larger digital photo
files, it fills up quickly.
>
> I will take another look at what WD is currently selling.
>
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 3/3/2016 9:14 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>
>> I currently have 21 4 TB drives hooked up.  Most of them are Western
>> Digital.  I have had several Seagates fail.  No WD that I have had has
>> failed.  (I'm knocking on wood now!)
>> Lacie is the worst I've ever used, but I don't think they are in business
>> anymore.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>
>>> Paul,
>>> My local external SATA drive is filling up.  I note that you are using a
>>> 3TB drive for this purpose.  The reviews are confusing. What drive do
you
>>> recommend?
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>> On 3/2/2016 3:04 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I have the main library on a RAID on my desk.  I have a 3TB
single
>>>> drive that serves as redundant local backup, plus I use Backblaze as my
>>>> main Cloud backup.  I'm just looking at Amazon as secondary cloud
backup.
>>>> I
>>>> am definitely NOT one of those "Just run everything from the cloud!!!"
>>>>    people. If the internet connection goes down, you're SOL.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Leo Wesson <leowesson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My philosopy as far as the web goes is if you don't pay for it, don't
>>>>>
>>>>> trust
>>>>> it.
>>>>> And that's how I feel about Amazon Cloud, Google, Yahoo....
>>>>>
>>>>> I do have a friend who runs an enterprise website hosted on Amazon
and he
>>>>> has been know to not have a website on occasion due to a burp in the
>>>>> cloud....
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't put all your eggs in one cloud!
>>>>>
>>>>> Leo Wesson
>>>>> Photographer/Videographer
>>>>> 817.733.9157
>>>>> www.leowesson.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Mike Lazzari <
watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If it's just storage you want with easy access then I can recommend
the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> little WD Cloud drive which isn't really "cloud" rather a NAS box. My
>>>>>>
>>>>> wire
>>>>>
>>>>>> is way too funky to consider cloud anything.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>
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