#BLAZE HARD DRIVE RELIABILITY MAC#

We all know Windows and MAC don’t talk nicely. You have connectivity and compatibility problems But those are expensive solutions to store all your historic content, which you’re not using every day.

Only one person can access a hard drive at any one time Media asset management systems like Preferred Connection show images as well as file names, so you can find specific content quickly. Then put all the wrong ones back again, so they don’t get lost. But you still have to take out all the hard drives you’ve stored in the cupboard and read labels until you find the right one. If you’re lucky, the drive is labelled and you can read the writing. All things which make them even more likely to fail. Or leave them on the train.Įven if the drive does turn up somewhere, the chances you’ll still be able to access the content on it are low. They stick hard drives in a drawer, or forget them in the car. They mean to put them back in the main storage cupboard when they’re done, but they don’t always manage it.

People take them out and plug them into their own devices when they need the content. So even if for some reason one failed, the content wouldn’t have been lost. If only we’d had those drives sooner, we’d have ingested the content and made two LTO copies. In one recent job we ingested into Preferred Connection, our digital asset management system, 2 of 54 legacy hard drives failed. But none of them score well for long term backup and archiving. Spinning disks are even less reliable than solid state ones. You could plug them all back in every year or two and refresh them – but who has the time to do that? Source: Backblaze If you disconnect hard drives, they tend to fail even faster. (We use and recommend LTO, with a lifespan of 30 years.) It’s not so good if you’re backing up onto a hard drive and assuming you’ll be able to use that backup at a later date.īy the way, that 20% fail rate is for hard drives being used in RAID setups. That’s fine if you’re using them for your current project and then backing up onto another medium. They look good, they sound like they should be easy, but beware! In the end, they create havoc and destruction.ĭata shows that 5.1% of hard drives fail within 18 months. They’re like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. When it comes to storing your precious content, you can’t trust hard drives.

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