Knackered external drive
26 July 2017, 12:23 PM
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I just use onedrive with 2 step verification for security. It's built into the Windows OS and extra storage is cheap. Everything I need is sync'd to there and accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. I also have it sync'd on all my devices so multiple local copies all kept in sync. You can redirect folders such as my documents etc to point to onedrive so very easy to keep tabs on files such as docs and photos and sync all in the same place on every device.
I gave up on external drives years ago as too unreliable/expensive/hassle to sync.
I gave up on external drives years ago as too unreliable/expensive/hassle to sync.
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26 July 2017, 03:04 PM
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I've got 45gb free with Microsoft from having an old hotmail account getting more storage plus a couple of promotions that permanently upgraded my storage allowance. I ran out of that so pay £1.99 a month for another 50gb.
The 5TB option is £79.99 per year or can be purchased monthly at £7.99.
The 5TB option is £79.99 per year or can be purchased monthly at £7.99.
25 December 2017, 04:47 PM
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SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTION
OK my boy now bought a 2 TB LaCie drive which is designed for roughish treatment, called a Rugged Mini. £129.99 from John Lewis.
But when he plugs it in Properties says it is only 372 GB formatted as FAT32.
If he reformats it would that uprate it to 2 TB? I've told him to be careful as he may not be able to return it.
Trouble is he is flying out of UK on Wednesday which brings problems tryng to exchange it.
Advice on formatting please.
Happy Christmas btw
David
But when he plugs it in Properties says it is only 372 GB formatted as FAT32.
If he reformats it would that uprate it to 2 TB? I've told him to be careful as he may not be able to return it.
Trouble is he is flying out of UK on Wednesday which brings problems tryng to exchange it.
Advice on formatting please.
Happy Christmas btw
David
25 December 2017, 05:46 PM
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25 December 2017, 06:44 PM
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Having lost a PC hard drive recently, I decided to go with a Western digital NAS 4 hard drive backup server. It copied my laptop 'my documents' and any other folder I chose. I had raid 10 setup. I allows my family to access their own folders from their mobile devices whilst away from home and backs up their photos/videos from their phones. It has the protection of losing 2 hard drives and still be able to rebuild and continue working. Here is hoping!
Once im fully familiar with they way it works I will back up the NAS with another remote drive to double down on protection.
Once im fully familiar with they way it works I will back up the NAS with another remote drive to double down on protection.
25 December 2017, 06:47 PM
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Yea he had the disc split into 2 partitions, you can see on the left Windows sees it as a 2TB drive (1863.02GB) all he had to do was reformat partition 1 as ntfs too (if he wanted to keep 2 partitions) that would have assigned a drive letter to it or delete one of the partitions, resize and reformat.
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26 December 2017, 10:24 PM
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RAID 10 stripes data across two mirrored pairs in your case. If two disks in the same mirrored pair fail, all data on that pair is lost, there is no parity computed to rebuild from. The danger is when one drive fails, the rebuild process for the new drive, will work its mirrored drive hard for a long period of time, which is when it is most likely to fail.
Your planned approach is spot on, get another NAS and rsync between them or buy some cloud storage to backup the important stuff.
