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Seagate Review: Hands-On With the 4TB Backup Plus Portable Hard Drive With Lyve Integration

BeefCake 15 said:
It means what he mentioned that they became one company, why dig deeper than what the OP mentioned?
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So, why post that comment if that's the case?

Hitachi's hardware does not have to be the same, actually I think it's still HGST's design, I never had 1 single drive from Hitachi die on me, had several friends/family with crashed WD drives, can't recover the data without spending a fortune.
 
bobegilbert said:
Great to see hard drive sizes increase and prices continue to drop. My big issue is that hard drives fail and you have to be crazy to put all your photos, videos, and other personal keepsakes on a single drive. My one recommendation is to make sure you have multiple of these configured in a RAID configuration so if one drive fails, you have a better chance of not losing your data. I know this is obvious, but it amazes me how many folks continue to rely on a single drive for backup.
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Actually it's better to have multiple drives, but not in a RAID configuration. Just make sure the backup/replication is automated enough that it actually gets done!

Also, it's important to define your objectives and what you're protecting against - e.g. disasters, accidental file deletion, corruption/malware, hardware failures. A RAID1 setup won't protect you against any of those (unless it's hardware failure - and even there, it must be the drive, not the RAID controller).

If you don't have time to precisely figure out your requirements, two Time Machine disks will fit most people's needs.
 
JustThinkin' said:
Actually it's better to have multiple drives, but not in a RAID configuration. Just make sure the backup/replication is automated enough that it actually gets done!

Also, it's important to define your objectives and what you're protecting against - e.g. disasters, accidental file deletion, corruption/malware, hardware failures. A RAID1 setup won't protect you against any of those (unless it's hardware failure - and even there, it must be the drive, not the RAID controller).

If you don't have time to precisely figure out your requirements, two Time Machine disks will fit most people's needs.
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That's exactly what I do. I use two hard drives from different manufactures and take one home weekly to do backups. I have an onsite drive and a drive that I keep encrypted at work.
 
Does anybody know what is the NTFS driver? Is it MacFUSE/NTFS-3g, or Tuxera, or Paragon?
 
justperry said:
Who cares
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My TV, my NAS and my Linux machines (among others) care.

And I don't think that jumping on a new Microsoft FS is a good idea on the long run. At least NTFS already is kinda supported.

Anyway, acording to Wikipedia's entry on NTFS, the driver is Paragon's.
 
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