Q: What is a good backup drive
My Seagate Free Agent GoFlex Home backup cratered on me. What is a good backup drive to replace it with?
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Aug 13, 2016 11:40 AM
Just one thing to note, of paramount importance is reliability when
it comes to backup.
Although nothing can be 100% guaranteed to work, your backup has to
be the most reliable item in your system, otherwise what is the point. So,
going cheap is not the smart thing to do.
All the inexpensive portable drives are designed with the lower reliability HDD
that the manufacturers. That is why they are cheap.
The best approach is to purchase a quality enclosure with proven track record
and install a higher reliability drive. All manufacturers have multiple tiers of
product quality and reliability, as indicated by their warranty and MTBF.
Your backup is like insurance. You hope you never have to use it, but your
agent needs to be there at a moments notice.
Posted on Aug 15, 2016 6:21 PM
