With the gigs of stuff saved over the years turning into terabytes of stuff, I need more storage. I need, nay want some 8 terabytes of love in the form of a Seagate Backup Plus 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive. Price prohibitive at nearly $300, this drive squashes the previous spinning disk capacities of 4 or 5 TB. This is a whopping 8 TB!!
Okay, okay, I’ll settle for 5 TB
Let it be known that even well-intentioned file backups can be defeated by plain old ignorance and laziness. I’m learning this first hand, waiting to take care of a hard drive issue that’s now bordering catastrophic. Why did I remove the drive from BackBlaze? Hoping Time Machine saves my bacon yet another time.
Why oh why, Western Digital???
Strike 1! Western Digital 500-GB external drive that powers up but then is completely silent.
Strike 2! A different WD 500-GB external drive model that powers up. But then the drive sounds like it keeps trying to spin up again and again and again.
Strike 3! An external Maxtor 750-GB drive that powers up, spins up, and mounts on the desktop. But when I try to actually use it, I get errors and delays. Disk Utility says it needs to be repaired even though I just freshly formatted it. 🙁
After striking out with Maxtor and Western Digital, the next batter up is Seagate. And I’m hoping to drive one out of the park, swing for the fences at 4 TB!!