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To: Don Green who wrote (96931)	6/11/2017 5:38:21 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 110626

Something to be said about hard-drives as data capacity continues to grow is that heat seems reduced when writing for a continuous period of time when coping another drive. I think this is due to a reduced magnetic footprint to write data, but what I wonder is how this effects data retention over time when fewer electrons are used. I will add I'm not comfortable with SSDs for long term storage. Josh * * *

To: Don Green who wrote (96931)	6/11/2017 7:20:45 PM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	Respond to of 110626

I spent 600 bucks on 64MB or EDO RAM back in the 90's.

To: Don Green who wrote (96931)	6/27/2017 6:28:57 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

Hi Don, I finally received my 8TB WD My Book external that was backordered. Data from two 4TB HGST internal drives is going on it. I did something similar last month with a 6TB My Book. Using the drag and drop method I'm seeing about 42 hours to copy 4TB of data. Also something to note since coping takes a long time is that the 6TB ran at 44 degrees Celsius, but the 8TB is running at 49 degrees Celsius during the copy process, which is significant. Josh * * *