6 TB not enough for you? Seagate now has a 8 TB drive in the works

[Metalcastr]

I've worked in several enterprise environments and by far the highest failure rate has come from Seagate. Sure we've had every other brand fail too, but the vast majority of the dead drive pile is them. A lot of the ones that haven't failed yet show reallocated sectors; had a huge pile of drives I wanted to reuse, ended up keeping less than 1/4 of them.

[Glitchvid]

[QUOTE=Gamerman12;45853913]I might just buy one of those for backups. I'm really fucking paranoid when it comes to losing all my shit one day.[/QUOTE]

Depending on what you need to backup there are a lot of options now days.
Look around, Blackblaze is a pretty good service, there's also Glacier, and a few others out there.

[caseytube]

[QUOTE=glitchvid;45857139]Depending on what you need to backup there are a lot of options now days.
Look around, Blackblaze is a pretty good service, there's also Glacier, and a few others out there.[/QUOTE]

eh, I don't know how I feel about cloud/etc keeping my files on hand, even if they are secure.

[lavacano]

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I've also used the drive label "Lore" in the past. basically i just hit up the thesaurus entry for "story" when I need a new drive label

I also had an incident years and years ago where my C:\ drive was assigned to a card reader and my actual hard drive was on I:\ . I have a screenshot buried in my image folder [i]somewhere[/i]...

[Glitchvid]

[QUOTE=Gamerman12;45857195]eh, I don't know how I feel about cloud/etc keeping my files on hand, even if they are secure.[/QUOTE]

If you're concerned just either encrypt them with PGP using GnuPG, or FreeOTFE.
Even then I don't actually keep any "incriminating" stuff on my cloud backups, the worse that's on there is DB backups for a few forums I run.

[Smug Bastard]

Aren't Seagate's drives known to be really unreliable?