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To: goldworldnet who wrote (89389)	6/23/2015 2:20:05 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	2 Recommendations Recommended By goldworldnet SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Those are good drives, I own one for backup of my iMac (which I also run Windows 7 on). I won't buy anything but HGST drives these days, it's simply not worth the hassle to buy cheaper Seagate drives just to save a few bucks. The time I'd end up spending to replace a drive gone bad is far more costly. I used to be a big fan of Seagate drives back in the day, when they were the most reliable brand and had good pricing (say, 15 years ago), but the Backblaze data and my personal experiences lead me to steer well away from them these days.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (89389)	6/23/2015 3:59:38 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

The only new drives I will buy to put in a case are SSD. For storage I have had for several month's three wd mycloud drives. Two are 4TB and one is a 2TB. They are linux based NAS. They also can be USB3 interfaced. I use a Gigabit 8 port switch. I mount them on linux nfs and mount on windows xp and 7 as drives as Samba mygroup shares. 92.168.1.48 Network Storage T-nas-1-48 (in MYGROUP), Western Digital Apache Web Server, Samba Server 192.168.1.49 Network Storage U-nas1-49 (in MYGROUP), Western Digital Apache Web Server, Samba Server 192.168.1.50 Network Storage V-nas1-50-b (in MYGROUP), Western Digital Apache Web Server, Samba Server The names reflect the drives letters assigned. Linux mount as root # mount Western Digital NAS echo mount Western Digital NAS mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.1.48:/nfs /nas1.48 #4T mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.1.49:/nfs /nas1.49 #4T mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.1.50:/nfs /nas1.50 There is a web interface 192.168.1.48 I set fixed IP's system names nasIP.IP or nas1.48 They are seemlessly available on all systems. You can also log in to the linux server with sh and do rcp to or from. Once set up they are nobrain to use. You can make them internet visible, da cloud. I do not I want local visibility only.