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Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations?

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I avoid USB drives, in preference to internal drives... speed and security.
When I use them I am extremely careful, because they all seem to have a 
spinning disk inside, not shock resistant, and subject to early failure 
due to heat.
I do have several, but they are not what I really Trust to keep precious 
data.

a separate box that is out of harm is best, even a separate low end 
computer to act as a storage device.
syncthing is my tool of choice to sync from my laptop to a desktop
then LuckyBackup on a schedule to Copy the sync folder into a second 
Storage drive.

Sorry, no recommendation, others have already spoke up and they know 
more than me about USB storage

On 1/25/19 9:24 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> Fellow List members:
>
> Would anybody care to voice an opinion on USB external hard drives in 
> the 2 terabyte size range, for automated backup purposes?
>
> We've been looking at the Seagate "Expansion" and the WD "Elements"; 
> I've noticed that on Amazon, both have a fair number of negative 
> reviews citing reliability issues. (We recently discovered that our 
> current Seagate had apparently failed on us.)
>
> Any opinions? Seagate? WD? Toshiba? Something else?
>
> -- 
> JHHL
>
>
>

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USB hard drives -- recommendations? "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2019-01-25 18:30 +0100
  Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-25 19:10 +0100
  Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-01-25 21:10 +0100
    Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-25 22:40 +0100
      Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-01-29 04:10 +0100
    Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> - 2019-02-06 08:50 +0100
  Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-01-25 21:20 +0100
    Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-01-25 22:30 +0100
      Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-01-25 23:20 +0100
        Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-01-27 06:00 +0100
  Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-01-26 03:00 +0100
    Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Jens Holzhäuser <Jens.Holzhaeuser@gmx.net> - 2019-01-26 04:30 +0100
    Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-01-26 19:10 +0100
    Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2019-02-03 01:30 +0100
      Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Toni Mas i Soler <antomassol@gmail.com> - 2019-02-03 09:10 +0100
      Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-03 10:20 +0100
        Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-03 11:10 +0100
          Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-03 11:30 +0100
            Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-03 16:10 +0100
              Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-03 18:40 +0100
            Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2019-02-03 19:00 +0100
            Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-03 19:10 +0100
              Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-03 20:10 +0100
                Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-03 20:30 +0100
                Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-04 18:20 +0100
          Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-03 11:40 +0100
          Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-02-03 12:50 +0100
  Re: USB hard drives -- recommendations? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-02-06 16:20 +0100

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