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Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:44:12 -0800 (PST)) it happened liu
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>> Thank you all for the suggestions. I've decided to edit them into
>> multple clips and keep them in DV. To back them up, I will store them
>> both on DVDs and external HD. I was trying to buy a 1 to 2 TB HDs for
>> that purpose, but couldn't find one that users rated as reliable.
>> Seagate, Western Digital all had bad reputations. I'm not sure about
>> Fantom which I didn't see as much negative opinions. I have ~100
>> tapes, so it is going to be a lot of work.
>>
>> Any suggestions on a good TB HD from your experience?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
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> I have used Seagate for many years, some are on 24/7 and > 7 years
> old.
> I have an external USB -1TB Seagate that works fine too.
> All other drive manufactures I tried sucked, and their drives died
> years ago.

The real trouble with that viewpoint is that every drive manufacturer seems
to go through spates of bad drives--when you got your Seagates they were
having a good run and the others weren't. Safest thing to do is mix brands.