Reliable External HD

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    Seagate - been a loyal seagate customer for over a decade now and have not once had a seagate drive fail or die on me.

    I started using them when I built my first PC - it was an old 3200rpm Barracuda drive, like 6gb or something. It lasted until I disassembled the machine.

    I then built another PC with two internal seagate 7200rpm SATA drives. Again, never had any issue.

    And more recently i've been using their external drives. I bought an external HDD back in 2006 and used it until 2010, when the 80gb just wasn't enough. I upgraded to a GoFlex 500gb drive with firewire and couldn't be happier. I also use a 1TB external HDD for backup for my home machine.

    My *only* quip with their newer drives is they feel a bit too 'plastic' for me. They're sturdy enough but I liked them just a tad more when they were encased in aluminum.

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    • Your FIRST HD, over a decade ago, was a 6GB 3200rpm Barracuda? You fucking wish!monospaced
    • oops...I totally read that wrong...disregard my commentmonospaced
    • Uhm, yeah, I think it was like 1998 when I built my first rig. One drive was the barracuda the other was a used quantum fireball.d_rek
    • I don't know if they sold GB drives back then. Maybe 600MBmonospaced
    • 1998? C'mon dude.d_rek
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