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And the Search for Reliable Storage Continues…
By Oliver Rist | March 6, 2007, 1:23 am
Unbelievable. I may have to re-evaluate how we do reviews over at InfoWorld. I originally reviewed the Iomega StorCenter and the Western-Digital NetCenter next to each other. During the two weeks when I was reviewing them, everything worked hunky-dory. I decided to do the long-term with Iomega because they had that two-disk striping layer of reliability. Now that the StorCenter is kicking the bucket, I plugged the WD NetCenter back in. (Hey, I was going to send it back. I just hadn’t gotten around to it!) It came up on Saturday and has been chugging along for a whole 48 hours before it…DIES. Flat out dies. Link light on the Ethernet port, but nothing from the disk. Glad I have that REV backup of everything or I would have launched that piece shit out a window.
So now everything is on two Iomega REV cartridges and one external USB SATA drive that I built from a kit that Otherworld Computing sent me. Pretty cool deal actually, and not a Mac-only thing. The external case is solid and made for portability with a big ‘ole heat sync on it. After I got it, I went over to the store-closing sale that the Route 10 CompUSA is having and found a 100GB 2.5-inch SATA drive. Open case, slide in drive, screw in those annoying little screws and connect the thing to a PC.
I stupidly hooked it to an XP machine back in October and formatted it as an NTFS drive. That works great, but means I can’t use it with the Mac. Which blows, because while the OWC drive can be used with any box, it’s got firewire 800 support, which means it would run sweet with the MacBook.
So after I find a reliable external storage box and move all that data, I’ll rebuild it. Till then, tho, I need that second copy of my data intact.
Freaking WD.
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