One feature you may want to consider is USB 3.0, which is supposed to offer really improved data transfer speeds vs. USB 2.0.
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| Midnight Max Deactivated User And put an end to the Chicago-style Thuggery 678 Posts 3/08 |  Posted - Dec 27 2011 : 12:00AMAny good External Hard Drive recommendations? Looking for a good 1TB model to save videos on and would appreciate some feedback from you tech-savvy guys and gals. Thanks [Link] |
| Porn Scout Deactivated User 3735 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Dec 27 2011 : 6:54AM One feature you may want to consider is USB 3.0, which is supposed to offer really improved data transfer speeds vs. USB 2.0. [Link] |
| Harry Joystick Member 740 Posts 8/02 | Posted - Dec 27 2011 : 8:56AM I buy either Seagate or Western Digital brands because they are the most popular but that's just me. Western Digital HDs are usually more expensive. As Porn Scout said, USB 3.0 would be good to have even if you don't need it right now. Chances are it will come in handy in the future. [Link] |
| Midnight Max Deactivated User And put an end to the Chicago-style Thuggery 678 Posts 3/08 | Posted - Dec 28 2011 : 12:02AM [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Dec 28 2011 : 1:21AM [Link] |
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| Midnight Max Deactivated User And put an end to the Chicago-style Thuggery 678 Posts 3/08 | Posted - Dec 28 2011 : 3:56AM Funny thing and FWIW- I believe in Gay Marriage, I'm pro-choice, I'm for the legalization of Mary Jane, I believe in the separation of Church and State, I believe in Evolution. I did not vote for John McCain and I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh. I feel I have no candidate to vote for this next November who best represents me. My favorite comedian is Lewis Black and John Cusack is one of my favorite actors. I'm a Los Angeles Laker fan. I believe in no new taxes, no new laws, a strong military, conservative spending and I could give a shit less about foreign policy when our backyards are so fuckin dirty. I believe in the right to own as many handguns and rifles as one should so choose, I believe in the death penalty, I'm a big fan of The Duke and I hate Bill Maher. I'm guessing it's this second portion of my beliefs which the powers that be find to be so distressing. :) [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Dec 28 2011 : 1:26PM We also have La Cie external drives at work (I work in IT), we used to have problems with a shitty brand before that and since we switched to La Cie, not a single problem. Don't know anything about their politics though... [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 8:47AM I think WD drives are better now than they used to be. [Link] |
jayo  All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 12:07PM I bought a WD MyDisk and it failed within 6 months. I lost everything. The guy I took it to says the little controller boards inside are the weak point, and they often fail. On the other hand, I gave a close relative the same thing for her computer, and it works perfectly. It's been well over a year. So go figure. I recently bought an external Seagate and it's been running fine (about 3 months). [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 2:08PM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 4:27PM This is a touchy spot with me. I paid for the drive so I'm out that. I opted to try to get the data rescued, which required breaking it out of the housing, which violated the warranty. They couldn't do it so I was out the money spent to attempt it. Then I bought a housing and the hard drive failed after a new low-level, partition and reformat, so I'm out that, too. (Though in theory I could use the housing for something else). It was a bad experience all the way 'round. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Dec 31 2011 : 12:48AM [Link] |
| norrinradd Member 55 Posts 10/11 | Posted - Jan 3 2012 : 9:01PM I've had good luck with WD My Books but my 3TB crashed. Externals are basically hard drives in an enclosure and if it fails u can just remove it and put it in a new enclosure. Unfortunately I couldnt find a new enclosure for my 3TB so it was a total disaster. I've had other externals or even my desktop die and I've usually been able to recover all the data from the disks. Most of the time the enclosure breaks, not the drives. As my library grew I just got more externals but ran out of usb ports + you'll need a power cord for each so I had a cable nightmare. Lo and behold out came enclosures that could hold multiple hard drives. I bought a startech enclosure that can hold 4 ordinary drives yet it only has 1 usb & 1 power cord. U can pop drives in and out which is helpful if u want to consolidate or you get a new computer but want to keep the content from your old drive. So far the only downside is the fan can be a little noisy. Organizing 7TB of porn is a different story but at least I have it accessible on one computer. [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - Jan 3 2012 : 11:40PM I use Western Digital Passports HDs for work and have a few of them. The USB 3.0 >500GBs ones are great. Stay away from LaCie drives. Had massive failures and lost lots of data that took me a week to recover (GetDataBack is life saver BTW) across 3 different LaCie drives (all 3 failed). [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Jan 4 2012 : 11:19AM I think that margins are so thin in the business that you really can't count on anybody over-engineering their product to make it last longer. [Link] |
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| Midnight Max Deactivated User And put an end to the Chicago-style Thuggery 678 Posts 3/08 | Posted - Jan 4 2012 : 11:39AM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jan 4 2012 : 10:10PM [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - Jan 4 2012 : 11:48PM Unfortunately, I think there are many failures in HDs across many manufacturers, but some more than others. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Jan 8 2012 : 12:24PM I also have a 1 TB WD Mybook that I bought at Costco maybe 3 years ago. It's been going along just fine. I even took it apart out of curiosity and it went back together pretty easy. I think (but can't remember for sure) that I even put the drive in my tower for a couple of days so it is, apparently, just an internal drive in the Mybook case. Edited by - randomprecision on 1/8/2012 12:30:09 PM [Link] |
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| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Feb 17 2012 : 4:03AM Edited by - Harri Patel on 2/17/2012 4:05:24 AM [Link] |
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