From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSZpU-0001K3-TF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:19:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70459E08BA; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com (mail-qc0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C67BE0BDF for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:17:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcsk26 with SMTP id k26so1731507qcs.40 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=DshiILSy4BiRD9Qd1XrYD3Qs6iCjoOpTMvmS7baOcuw=; b=B0W6zAGwaK7LqKGcW6Y0pl1YT9bCtHYiuz7J+KN65x6fGeaThRUoy2ju2LBSPCHKki jn7BcmLOw0VI/lQ8H6aVs3Vx1YX2DxrW8Kv5DvF2HLfrg+5nqe5Grnx3UyguBu/kT7VJ R/g9tYpsTkFfPjpxn8fH0EnZuFh9t14lZjFzag464xANFuqnEMp4L2E7V/gwPdK0bTrO ni1kXjZB44lnvXrZl4q76LRUCUA3uKaXdvYwnPCGrURZ4FFvgzZb4zGGnkrGArhqEvpi K0CsM5ajX8oJ4mA/rGB92GyqntSvjoinS0b8/jxW+uqcCLHL34BRMC+TXxCGJwoejKJT j00Q== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.44.130 with SMTP id a2mr14000819qaf.66.1336681032081; Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.236.136 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:11 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 5b6e9e45-682d-4ae4-b6c5-1a3522981b13 X-Archives-Hash: d8e71d2782574dc6193acc0d6b7ff145 On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my > videos on, eventually. Hi Dale, One thing I wanted to point out about the task you have in front of you. There is a problem in your work statement here and it really comes down to one single one letter word. That word was 'a', as in "buy me _a_ LARGE hard drive" No matter what drive you purchase, and no matter how well you treat it, they all fail eventually and you lose your movies & all the time it takes to put it back together again. At a minimum, if you plan on buying one to use then you need to buy a _second_ drive to do backups of the first. You need to rsync that second drive on a regular basis and then disconnect it and put it in a different place in the house, or even better, store it in a safety deposit box to protect against theft or your house burning down, etc. This sort of comment certainly goes for the system as a whole, but at a seasoned Gentoo user I'm sure you're doing that already. ;-) Just don't forget to do the same for this new drive. Have fun, Mark