[Gllug] OT: Warning - new WD portable drives!

[James Hawtin]

j.roberts wrote:
>
> I would NEVER trust important data to a non-RAID1 USB caddy, and I'm 
> wary  even then, as I have had over the years various cases of 
> near-simultaneous RAID drive failures... RAID5/6 caddies are not 
> available :)
>
Nothing wrong with trusting data to a non-raid usb caddy, so long as you 
don't trust your data to only one! If you think about it backup tapes 
are not "raided" either, however you have multiple generations of your 
data on different devices.

James
--
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug