Can I use this for long term storage?
1955143
I haven't done this myself, but as long as you release the jack pressure onto the locks, you will be ok. It has served me well and has had a 1200 pound bike up for long periods of time, but not for months.
1967301
I would say probably not, although I have never tried. I leave mine set up, since it is used daily and I don't need the space for something else.
305942
Yes you can, It is a good and fast spinning hard drive which can handle video/audio tasks, however, my hard drive stopped spinning after about 6 months, and data recovery cost hundreds. So if you can; buy two and keep one for "only" storage and the other for running editing software. Lacie will replace the drive if it breaks, but the data is on you.
1441684
No, I wouldn't recommend it. It's more of a temporary stand, and I'm not sure it would be good for storage. It is great for repairs, however. Hope his helps.
1126542
Im not sure. I found it so useless for what I hoped to do with it that I dumped it after about a month. I would suspect if you kept it frozen it would keep indefinitely.
87370
I have used it for a lot of different things. It can be used as a simple hard disk, but it will have to be formatted first.
1668038
Probably yes, but the quality of the product is questionable. I bought one, and 4 months later, it suffer a catastrophic failure. The WD solution is better for the cloud idea.
305941
Yes, you can store any data on it. If you are going to be using the drive with both Mac and PC, you should consider reformatting it as ExFAT, which is fully compatible with both. It will provide the most flexibility.
2089342
I don't have any experience with either of these programs, but being that it is solid state and 1Tb you should not have any storage problems. Sorry I could not be of more help.
1293182
If you plan to use it, I store ours on the counter top in an area out of the way.If you're talking long term storage without use, I would really clean it and then place in a cabinet out of the way.
1808480
yes, but you will be using that as the cache drive. you may not store files on to the 24 gb.
1794077
The advantage of having this storage card is that you won't end up using all the Gbs that comes installed. You can use this card to store music and pixtures on here instead. Leaves you room to do other things.
1869281
No. The file would be too large. The system over writes the old ones once full. This enables you to keep a record longer.
375679
Yes, You absolutely can... I recommend buying a 250 gb hard drive. They cheap and it will help you a lot...
788305
It would have been helpful if you had described what you intend to do. Clone what, exactly, would be a good start. And do you have any extra hardware available, such as an unused HDD that could be used for temporary storage?
335066
yes, you can use it for automatic backups--that's what I do. Each backup is 'discrete' so you can backup a file (as part of a regular backup) then delete it; it'll still be there on one of the backups. Will remain until you clear it out deliberately or room is needed for the next backup. With 3TB, that's not going to happen soon...
1167979
You can use it, but not for a long time. The quality is bad and it will broke soon. Also it cannot read all the disks.