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- ismith
I know there a ton of threads about this but I've read them all (and contributed) and I want to get some specific advice. I've got next to no money so I need something cheap, but I need around 1TB. I've got a Lacie that I've had for 5 years strong now without an issue but aside from needing more space, I'm anticipating some kind of failure not too long from now. I know Lacie only makes the enclosure, but I heard that the model I was looking at (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010Y... has a Samsung drive. Most of the other threads end up with people arguing Seagate vs. WD, but the SeaGate FreeAgent had a ton of reviews saying it was dead-on-arrival.
So say you peeps on Samsung drives, whether from experience or stats. I looked but could not find the failure rate of Samsung drives vs. others. Also if you know of any super good discounts around I'd be glad to hear about them...
Thanks and happy new years still!
- ismith0
Ooh so the link fucked up, here: http://tinyurl.com/yjnra8z
- benfal990
there's no flash memory external hard drive yet?
- benfal990
whatever brand you will choose, you always need a backup of your backup.
like:
You computer
backed up to
external hard drive 1
backed up to
external hard drive 2then, keep external hard drive away from your home, like at your work or at a parents house. then, bring it back home like every month or 2 months and update it and bring it back away from home.
best method to avoid fire and thiefs and hd failures.
- benfal990
other method (and this is where the futur is) is uploading your backup on a server. Like Dropbox and stuff like that.
But i know its not easy to upload 50 gigabytes of stuff on a server...