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Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM working good so far
There was a recent deal at NewEgg on the SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM 32MB drives, so I decided to risk it as opposed to the other WD & Seagate 2tb drives. I installed them, upgraded the ...
Cheers soulseeker
Do me a favour and keep a post or two coming in as follow ups for me. I'll check in daily with the forum to see if you're good to go. I almost purchased 2 of the disks last night, but the fact that I'm skint stopped me. I'd thought I'd better beware and wait to see if anyone posts. Can't afford any mess ups, financially and data wise.
Just checked my seagate drive which I had on the long test overnight. And it passed. So I've just had to google for the difference between long test and long generic test, the latter being the option to fix bad sectors on disk. If any bad sector can't be repaired apparently the disk if failed. Another 8 hour stint I guess. So still wont know if I'm out of the woods yet with the seagate problem. If anyone can verify my little go at an explanation of the Seatools long tests, that would be handy.
Also while I'm sitting here, everyone is mentioning doing a backup. I'm never done that before updating Radiator. Have I been doing it wrong and taking a chance? I guess I have eh? And also, if the Duo is not some sort of backup system, i.e. redundancy because of the 2 disk setup. Then could someone give me a quick description of how I'm supposed to be running things. Should I have an external Usb hard drive attached to the Duo backing that up?
Someone be kind enough to clarify some of these question for me please. How many backups should one be implementing on a realistic level?
(and I know one can never have enough backups, before anyone replies with that one)
Also, I'd be trying to backup just under 1.5TB of data. So I'm assuming I'd need a drive that size of bigger, e.g. 2TB
Or is there a way of backing up with some compression tool within Frontview settings, that I might get away with a smaller external hard drive for instance? Otherwise it's more layout again on an external hard drive for the job of backing up the redundant backup.
I need someone's up to date thinking on these Q's please.
mutley
Do me a favour and keep a post or two coming in as follow ups for me. I'll check in daily with the forum to see if you're good to go. I almost purchased 2 of the disks last night, but the fact that I'm skint stopped me. I'd thought I'd better beware and wait to see if anyone posts. Can't afford any mess ups, financially and data wise.
Just checked my seagate drive which I had on the long test overnight. And it passed. So I've just had to google for the difference between long test and long generic test, the latter being the option to fix bad sectors on disk. If any bad sector can't be repaired apparently the disk if failed. Another 8 hour stint I guess. So still wont know if I'm out of the woods yet with the seagate problem. If anyone can verify my little go at an explanation of the Seatools long tests, that would be handy.
Also while I'm sitting here, everyone is mentioning doing a backup. I'm never done that before updating Radiator. Have I been doing it wrong and taking a chance? I guess I have eh? And also, if the Duo is not some sort of backup system, i.e. redundancy because of the 2 disk setup. Then could someone give me a quick description of how I'm supposed to be running things. Should I have an external Usb hard drive attached to the Duo backing that up?
Someone be kind enough to clarify some of these question for me please. How many backups should one be implementing on a realistic level?
(and I know one can never have enough backups, before anyone replies with that one)
Also, I'd be trying to backup just under 1.5TB of data. So I'm assuming I'd need a drive that size of bigger, e.g. 2TB
Or is there a way of backing up with some compression tool within Frontview settings, that I might get away with a smaller external hard drive for instance? Otherwise it's more layout again on an external hard drive for the job of backing up the redundant backup.
I need someone's up to date thinking on these Q's please.
mutley
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