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Old March 15th 18, 07:03 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
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Speaking of LAN backups, our office LAN backup is at 4 TB and growing at
100 GB a month. I still use three internal backup drives, two are WD 4
TB green drives and one is a WD 8 TB white drive ripped out of an
external drive. The 4 TB drives only have 200 GB of free space and have
been reformatted several times. They will be upgraded to 8 TB internal
drives soon.

I also write an external USB drive each week on Friday. It takes 12 to
18 hours to do an incremental backup and 3 to 5 days to write a full
backup to a clean drive. No compression. There are seven drives and they
are stored offsite. Three are WD 6 TB and four are WD 8 TB. The 8 TB
external drives are now $170, amazing !

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/

Lynn
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Old March 15th 18, 07:08 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
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Default LAN backups

On 3/15/2018 1:03 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Speaking of LAN backups, our office LAN backup is at 4 TB and growing at
100 GB a month. I still use three internal backup drives, two are WD 4
TB green drives and one is a WD 8 TB white drive ripped out of an
external drive. The 4 TB drives only have 200 GB of free space and have
been reformatted several times. They will be upgraded to 8 TB internal
drives soon.

I also write an external USB drive each week on Friday. It takes 12 to
18 hours to do an incremental backup and 3 to 5 days to write a full
backup to a clean drive. No compression. There are seven drives and they
are stored offsite. Three are WD 6 TB and four are WD 8 TB.Â* The 8 TB
external drives are now $170, amazing !

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/


Lynn


I still do not understand why WD does not sell an 8 TB green drive
though. I just buy a WD USB external drive and strip the drive out.

Lynn

 




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