Has anyone seen a great deal on a 1tb or better portable HDD?
afterburnt
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I am running out of room on my mismatched portables and I need a pair.
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I own one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008R7FC74?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage
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After looking again, looks like the newer model is even less!
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I'm an IT guy. Seagate has a high failure rate.
Look at Samsung or WD
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=computers&field-keywords=westen+digital+
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thanks RamZet, I have a bunch of old WD's and they always worked fine until the last one so I was looking to try another brand. Didn't WD buy Seagate or vis versa recently?
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I'm an IT guy. Seagate has a high failure rate.
Look at Samsung or WD
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=computers&field-keywords=westen+digital+
I cannot agree with this enough!
I have a hard time recommending cheap externals. I've just seen too many fail. Maybe they're getting better, but horror stories. If you're not already doing it, consider having two or three copies if your data, or sign up for some secure cloud storage. I don't mean those free Dropbox accounts.
Western Digital MyBook disks have been pretty good, imhe. Whatever you get, just treat it like a hard drive, not a cornhole bag.I disabled signatures. -
None of my portables ever quit except one but I am pretty sure that of all of the internal drives that I have had Segate did fail more than the others.
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I use the WD My Passport 1 TB external HDD (USB 3.0) and have had a great experience. Product link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006Y5UV4A/
It's currently priced at $56.
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Another IT guy checking in
Can I suggest something better? Buy hard drive enclosure for like 14 bucks that lets you put in any drive you want.
Then go buy the 4TB HGST drive thats on sale on newegg for 140 and you have 4x the space you wanted for a VERY low price.
I've got 1 of these drives in my HTPC and just snagged a second for the HTPC for a total of 8TB so far.
@ZLTFUL has 4 of them in his HTPC and I know he suggests that brand over ALL others due to their low failure rate.
Some stuff just to read up on if you want. Internal Hard Drive failure rates by brand and size drive
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
Great info in this thread. I didn't know about HGST and have always used Western Digital drives for the last 20 years or so. So, HGST is what used to be Hitachi and IBM, and that venture had a solid reputation of its own although more expensive.
My own experience with hard drives, whether internal or external, is to buy bigger than needed even if it costs a bit more. I have a few 1TB external drives around that work fine, but the capacity is the issue. These days, I need at least 2TB for a drive to be useful to me as a backup device! So, I wasted money buying smaller drives when a more expensive 2TB drive was available for a bit more money. -
I will try an HGST portable. I want it to run of of the powered usb port. Thanks
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I'm an IT guy. Seagate has a high failure rate.
Look at Samsung or WD
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SCompRacer wrote: »
But rich.... RED, GREEN, BLUE AND PURPLE DRIVES MATTER!!!"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
EndersShadow wrote: »
But rich.... RED, GREEN, BLUE AND PURPLE DRIVES MATTER!!!
Ha! Of course!Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 * -
EndersShadow wrote: »SCompRacer wrote: »
But rich.... RED, GREEN, BLUE AND PURPLE DRIVES MATTER!!!
pfft, show me the double blind biased white papers you hack... -
When buying WD always go Red.
If you're looking for speed go Black.
What ever you do, don't go green.B&W CM9Classé Sigma
