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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1700363" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p><strong>Steve</strong> - just to 'chime in' another time - you mentioned <em>Seagate</em> as a brand of external HD which raises the issue of which brands/models of HDs to purchase for these backup procedures - first, I've noticed here that there is an issue of using HDs that are USB powered vs. those powered by AC adapters, the latter seem preferred by many of the experienced members here - however, the USB (or Thunderbolt) powered HDs seem to be replacing the others - for myself, all of my MANY external HDs are port powered - but, just a consideration for you.</p><p></p><p>Second, the brand - Seagate seems to have a poor reputation here, but the HD industry is so changeable w/ many 'buy outs' - i.e. who knows now what manufacturer's own - I've previously published charts showing substantially increased failure rates of Seagate drives; however, the chart below is an updated evaluation indicating that most of these producers now have similar failure rates, so may not be as important an issue (<a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/" target="_blank">Source</a>)?</p><p></p><p>For myself, I have more than a half dozen HDs backing up my two Mac computers - on my wife's iMac, I have an OWC (HGST) & Buffalo (Seagate) doing TM (Time Machine) on Thunderbolt ports; on my MBPro laptop, I do TM on USB Seagate & WD HDs (once a week) - for my CCC cloning apps, use USB drives (OWC & WD) - SO, bottom line, first decide on your power interface, i.e. port vs. AC, and then on the brand/model of your backup HDs - all of these seem to now have similar 'failure rates', and because of that possibility, redundant backups are probably a good practice. Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]23810[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1700363, member: 234411"] [B]Steve[/B] - just to 'chime in' another time - you mentioned [I]Seagate[/I] as a brand of external HD which raises the issue of which brands/models of HDs to purchase for these backup procedures - first, I've noticed here that there is an issue of using HDs that are USB powered vs. those powered by AC adapters, the latter seem preferred by many of the experienced members here - however, the USB (or Thunderbolt) powered HDs seem to be replacing the others - for myself, all of my MANY external HDs are port powered - but, just a consideration for you. Second, the brand - Seagate seems to have a poor reputation here, but the HD industry is so changeable w/ many 'buy outs' - i.e. who knows now what manufacturer's own - I've previously published charts showing substantially increased failure rates of Seagate drives; however, the chart below is an updated evaluation indicating that most of these producers now have similar failure rates, so may not be as important an issue ([URL="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/"]Source[/URL])? For myself, I have more than a half dozen HDs backing up my two Mac computers - on my wife's iMac, I have an OWC (HGST) & Buffalo (Seagate) doing TM (Time Machine) on Thunderbolt ports; on my MBPro laptop, I do TM on USB Seagate & WD HDs (once a week) - for my CCC cloning apps, use USB drives (OWC & WD) - SO, bottom line, first decide on your power interface, i.e. port vs. AC, and then on the brand/model of your backup HDs - all of these seem to now have similar 'failure rates', and because of that possibility, redundant backups are probably a good practice. Dave :) . [ATTACH=FULL]23810[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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