Almost lost all the site data and archive.

Woah, not fun. I was wondering what was up. Thanks for handling all that so quickly! I can donate a bit. I'll do that now.

 

Shoot! That was scary I bet. I have no money, but once I do, I will see what I can find. I suggest Reds, not Blacks, for this.

 

I've mentioned before that since the site's transition/reboot whatever that it has not been as easy to donate as before. I can't even find where I can donate anymore. You should seriously make it very easy and accessible for anybody to donate because I said I would have donated a small amount.

There should be a Donate button or something similar right on the main page.

 

I've been on a forum where the data has been lost. 10+ years of shared car knowledge lost in a couple hours. It was a sad day, that forum never really recovered, and questions that were answered ages ago were popping up and no one had the answers bc the old threads were gone. Would hate for that to happen here. I'm in to chip in.

 

How did I miss that? Maybe it was recently added on. Duly noted.

Edit: Donated.

 

Ok I get it.

Edit: I remember asking where it was when the move was first made and it wasn't around, I swear I'm not crazy!

 

I highly suggest HGST (aka Hitachi) drives as they are very durable and seem to work well. Seagates are crap in a tin can, and Western Digital drives are great, if not pretty expensive like you said.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002WGH2QK/?tag=pcpapi-20

 

Any drives can be bad, always pointing the finger to Seagate doesn't mean "failure". In fact most of my failing drives have been WD, and they're meant to be the best.

Would a Cloud service as another form of backup work just as good, like a premium OneDrive? For the more rarer data.. I wouldn't go for Dropbox or anything vastly 3rd party. Microsoft would probably be a more secure bet. I suppose you'd want an offsite backup as well, to be extra safe incase of a disaster.

 

Depending on how much data i would stick it on amazon glacier storage. Best place to keep cold backups that wont be touched often.

 

HGST helium drives. They are welded shut. he8 is an incredible drive.

 

Agreed. HGST drives are just all sorts of awesome.

@HEX1GON , did you return them to WD? Normally, they will recover all the data they can for free and make it up to you somehow. Seagate doesn't give 2 craps about customers. And their drives suck, thats the popular consensus.

 

Seagate actually have the highest failure rate at the moment, there was data posted by a company using retail drives and posted all the failure data.

Link here: http://www.extremetech.com/computin...clear-winners-and-losers-but-is-the-data-good

I have also been running around the country replacing <year old seagate drives recently too.

Not to say in a few years it wont be different, but at the moment - dont buy seagate.

 

How much more would enterprise drives be?
Do you do tape backups?

 

I ran out and got the other 2tb, rebuild and all is good now.

I will have to consider backing it up ultrium drive, it's about $500 for a drive and $20 each 1.6tb tape.

 

Glad you avoided the disaster.

If you want to do remote backup and don't trust 3rd parties, I'd suggest using syncthing : https://syncthing.net/

It only uses a central server to allow you to find your paired clients, but there's ways to use your own server as well.
Transfer is crypted and you can select a Master client, so if something goes wrong on the distant backup it won't erase the files elsewhere.
It also supports different versionning methods.

 

Remote backups FTW! and keep a copy at home. And yeah, LTO is the best thing for backups.
Also HGST vs WD vs Seagate - i had a LOT more troubles with Seagate but ANY drive can fail. Also there's a chance of power problems like high voltage goes into PSU because of some dumb electrician ass or rare but unfortunate lightning hit. Not to mention fire in the data center. Shit happens.

 

My office has had a lot of multiple drive failures on our servers (IBM), which were found to be caused by a bug, and required an immediate firmware update to the RAID controller.