Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:58:24 -0500 7.0.1|January 17, 2006) at 12/30/2013 16:17:46, Serialize complete at 12/30/2013 16:17:46
OK, so while I was looking at high end gun safes, I noticed that they now come with a RJ45 passthrough as well as 110v AC inside. I was told this was so you could put a network storage device (NAS) i
Yes, there's a temperature you need to stay below. Check the documentation from Seagate, it will tell you the environmental conditions that the device can tolerate. You can buy a network-friendly the
Interesting question. I'd guess a safe is one helluv'a thermal insulator, so I'm thinking you do not want to put active electronics in it. I think current hard drives pull 2 - 10 watts depending on l
Best practice is to have your backup off-site. Look at CrashPlan or another cloud offering. They are cheap and have been quite reliable for me. You could also look into using Amazon S3 or Glacier sto
I was under the impression that late model hard drives have a built in health monitoring capability.At one time I downloaded some software that allowed you to see the figures and I believe there were
Temp - Cooler is better. I don't know what a safe high temperature is. I suspect every degree higher reduces the life by some factor, but I have no idea how much. See my earlier post about my server
Keep your NAS where it can be kept cool and back the data up to a separate drive and store it off site. I use Windows home server to back up all 5 home computers and hold about 1TB of other data. In
Me too, or at least I used to be. Years ago, I used to back up my work system (a VAX) onto 8mm digital video tape and carry the backup home with me every night. Did a full backup each night, and swi
Cool ;) Love me some VAXen and Exabytes (or used to). USB flash drives are so cheap now, that's the way to go. Just do not depend on only one or limited ability to back-track. Have you heard about th
Hey, I still run a VAX (OpenAlpha). Its a great webserver and file server, no one knows how to hack it :) I have a Buffalo RAID device and its wonderful, just enough heat and air circulation to keep
Back when I first started with the VAX, it was the top of the line VAX 780, with all the options (for a classified project). We actually had two 512 MB fixed drives and a 250 Meg removable drive. Al
That was called a disk pack. New in the late 60's. In the same time period at Western Electric Hawthorne Works our IBM 360/20 (we used it for a glorified tab machine) would get payroll info from West
Ah, the good 'ol days. Back in the early '60s, when our computer was some bamboo that slid back and forth, I was working on highway design, and we needed more accuracy, so we used 15 place log tables
I used one of those in school and in my first job. A year or two ago I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and they had one on display. It's funny when something you remember ne
Google published some data about their drive reliability a few years ago. One of the conclusions was temperature below instant death was not correlated with early drive failure. It's been a long time