best external hard drives
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- tparsons
Anyone have some recommendations? 250GB and up.
Right now I have a Lacie 250GB Firewire 800 but I've had one of them completely fail.
Thanks,
- studderine0
that thing looks huge! but i am sure it works well. i bought one for like 80 bucks. hold 80gb and really small. dang!
- pango0
Lacie 1000 GB.
I never used it but my friend loves it.
2 firewire, no need power cable.
- flavorful0
Find: External
There are about 2/3 threads on this with all the answers you’ll need.
- tparsons0
Thanks guys.... I'll check it out.
- MrD0
http://www.seagate.com/freeagent…
very sexy with glowing orange light..
BUT hard to turn off since its touch button
- joyride0
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubC…
buy the case, and put HD's into it
- Mimio0
Buy some sort of NAS box.
- Jaline0
Western Digital MyBook series.
- horton0
Avant Garde Gothic Alternates.
oh wait.. nevermind.
- Milan0
porn-on-the-go?
- Mimio0
I have a WD MyBook. If I had to do over again I might spend more and get one with faster read/writes speed. I'm still really pleased with it though.
- barbtastic0
haven't read the thread...
DO NOT BUY from LaCie. They are dicks and the drive will fail.
- Jaline0
I wouldn't trust Lacie either. While a lot of people like them, I have heard of way too many drives failing. And their warranty is only one year or something.
Seagate = 5 year warranty
Western Digital = 3 year warrantyThat says it all right there.
- Milan0
I only buy Seagate. Had both Western Digital and Maxtor drives fail on me, but haven't lost a Seagate one yet. Not saying it won't happen, just not as often as the other two..
- version30
3 of these plugged in downstairs
http://www.amazon.com/SimpleShar…i back up one with another every month
- madirish0
Seagate = 5 year warranty
Western Digital = 3 year warrantyThat says it all right there.
Jaline
(Oct 5 07, 09:10)yeah, it says you are able to get a free, new drive from them for 5 and 3 years respectfully.
:)
not trying to argue at all mind you, but they will *all* fail; they are non-solid state hardware. i have had all three of these brands and they have all failed/been fine. both as internals and externals.
not a matter of if, but when- to think otherwise (especially w/ regard to an external HD) is setting yourself up for a HUGE dissapointment.
- tparsons0
I agree madirish... not if, when. I'm backing up on multiple drives for that reason.
Thanks all for the input.
Have a great weekend.
- Mimio0
That's why you get a NAS box and run RAID on it. You just Run Retrospect on your open projects folders nightly and your shit is reasonably well protected against drive failure.
- Jaline0
True, madirish.
Just get like 3 Seagate HDs ;)