Pyree :
I feel your pain as well, I worked with satellite imagery but not anymore (luckily that part of the research is finished for my project).
The internet infrastructure is falling behind our needs. I have no idea when I can get gigabit internet connection. My current speed for upload is about 1Mbps so it will take me about 7 months of continuous upload to backup my main 2TB drive. I don't have the infrastructure, so even if I want to, I will have to wait a long time before I can use that service.
Well, I have an easy back up. No OS in that one, I redo an image if I don't like something.
BTW, the only drive that died on me was Maxtor about 10yrs ago, and 1 Western digital Raptor 74GB after 4 years of series obuse(got bad sectors beyond repair.), so I RMA'd it and the one they sent me was DOA.
Knock, knock on the wood WD is really good to me. I have also WD TV Live Hub Media Player w/ 1TB of Internal Storage.
WD is working with my pains. I used maybe 30-35 WD's. All internals. I also sell them when size able upgrade on market happens.
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