Aren't all harddrivesade by only one or two companies? You can tell who made yours by searching for LurkerJoe's post on how to tell who made your HD.(but no longer a fan of WD)
Western Digital and Seagate are the two big manufacturers who bought up many of the other companies over the years. Samsung, Hitachi, IBM, Toshiba and apparently HP are other companies in the traditional drive business (though not really sure if HP manufactures their own). With Solid State drives on the rise you're see other, traditionl memory companies (Intel for one) in the market. There are also some specialty players like IomegaAren't all harddrivesade by only one or two companies?
IBM is no longer in the drive business, they sold their Hard Drive business to Hitachi several years back.Western Digital and Seagate are the two big manufacturers who bought up many of the other companies over the years. Samsung, Hitachi, IBM, Toshiba and apparently HP are other companies in the traditional drive business (though not really sure if HP manufactures their own). With Solid State drives on the rise you're see other, traditionl memory companies (Intel for one) in the market. There are also some specialty players like Iomega
Almost correct. You have to pay to ship the defective drive back to them. But they pay to ship the new one.Western digital has a excellent RMA program , if under warrenty they will send you a new drive and then the box prepaid box to mail them your old drive.
And they say that Maxtor HD's are bad. Looks like WD is worst.Returned my third Western Digital drive yesterday.
sounds like you need a RAID setup. never set one up before , but if I had as many photos and videos as it sounds like you have I'de probably do it. if any one drive fails , then you automatically have a back-up.I'd freak if I lost all my pictures and videos, but burning them all onto disk is insane and costly.
Unless I use blank BluRays? Anyone have suggestions - no online storage either.
I'd use 2-3 HDDs for backup or a RAID setup as islandman4567 mentioned above.I'd freak if I lost all my pictures and videos, but burning them all onto disk is insane and costly.
Unless I use blank BluRays? Anyone have suggestions - no online storage either.
Good quality power supplies should not "burn out".Desktop unit.
I replaced my power supply about 6 months ago. The old one burned out.
So those are two quality PSUs. Under what circumstances did the OCZ burn out? Generally it's a power surge that kills a PSU. Lightning strike taking the power out and then the surge when the power comes back on kills electronics. You might consider a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to plug your computer into. Some of them have warrantees that guarantee to replace your stuff if it's damaged by a surge.Currently I'm using Corsair 650W but the one that burned out was OCZ.
Long term means different things to different people. Once we start wanting things to be accessible, let's say, in 10 years, cds and dvs become uncertain. keeping the original drive (technological preservation) that you wrote them on may help. having different drives (lite-on, pioneer...) that are used by the hacker community may help. but for the normal folk, just getting extra hard drives is the easiest. a solid backup strategy that cycles all the drives every few months will keep them operational. it's a bit difficult to see when a drive is failing if we never read from it so we may end up making backups onto a failing drive without knowing.I'd use 2-3 HDDs for backup or a RAID setup as islandman4567 mentioned above.
I DON'T trust CD or DVD media for long term storage ...