| there are a lot of comments here,
Ari "2tb is an awful lot of information to trust to one drive......I would look at some economical RAID solutions. I am really impressed by drobo boxes, but you can diy one on the cheap....... "
wlachan "After went through some dead external because of overheating, I would not buy any external w/o active cooling again."
the points here are really you need multiple back up , and back up should not be a contionually powered device but something you canm move away and lock up. otherwise it is primary storage.
a mybook 2TB is ok for temporary / back up applications, as are a host of other passivly cooled devices, but if you want to use something for primary storage, then it should go in a force cooled box because it will be on 100% of the time you run your computer. |