Timeline for How many partitions should I make and what formatting schemes should be used on those partitions?
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| Jul 28, 2015 at 12:43 | history | edited | AMR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2015 at 12:13 | history | edited | grg♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 9:37 | vote | accept | Aneef | ||
| Jul 26, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | AMR | I have a Synology NAS and that has been very reliable. The center drive of a 5 disk array has gone bad twice, but the other for are the ones I bought when I set up the device. I suspect that the center disk gets hotter than the others and that was why both fails happened in that bay, but all I had to do was get a new drive, pull out the old one and plug in the new one and the RAID rebuilt itself. I realize I have had some bad luck, but I have never had an external HDD that I used regularly that has lasted three years. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 15:08 | comment | added | AMR | @Aneef. What I have done to extend the capacity on my MBP is use SanDisk Cruzer Fits The are very reliable and much faster than even a 7200RPM External Hard Drive. Plus they go with me and because of they do not extend more than a few centimeters, I am not concerned about them snapping. I don't use them for Time Machine, just for extended capacity for data files. If you get a USB hub, then you can get a lot of storage. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 14:27 | comment | added | Aneef | @AMR: Thanks for your advice. The real reason for getting an external HDD is because of the limited 256GB SSD that I have on my Macbook. I don't use HDDs for data backups, but since I'm getting this HDD so I thought why not also backup my data using Time Machine. All of my sensitive data is already backed up on Google Drive. But I still hope that my external HDD serves its purpose for at least 3 years if not more. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 14:03 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | I've been through probably 50 hard drives, any that were thrown out were due to the size itself no longer having value. But I've also lost a half dozen external drives due to failure. +1 for your advice. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 12:29 | history | answered | AMR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |