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external HD question
mgz:
--- Quote from: Xtras on October 16, 2009, 12:51:24 AM ---General rule of thumb: Limit purchases to WD, Seagate and Samsung. If one of those fails on you, you probably moved or used it too much; or you were just unlucky.
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yea ive only had 2 HDDs fail on me, 1 was a maxtor that came with an old computer the other a hitachi in a laptop.
Have never had any of my WD or Seagate drives failme
And i personally prefer to use a external dock with seperate power supply and my own internal drives.
Allows me to have hot swappable external storage and i just save my nice antistatic bags and put my HDDs im not using away nicely.
Fortunately ive got 6 HDDs stuff inside my case so its not to big of an issue anyway
kenshin-dono:
heya guys. Ive almost filled my 500gig external HD (a maxtor) with anime now and am going to need to pick up another one.
couple of quick questions
1. are the 1tb and 2tb sizes stable these days? i remember years ago the higher sized HD's were more prone to failures, im wondering if thats still the case these days
2. what are good brands/stuff to stay away from? Ive personally had a couple hardrives fail me in the past. One was a seagate, the other i cant remember.. i *THINK* it was a western digital but not sure. I remember hearing seagates ass these days. What other brands suck, what are good ones?
3. I saw an HP simplesave 1tb on sale for 100 bucks at target. Is that a decent brand/price?
4. I noticed a lot of these HDs have auto backup features, and all these bells and whistles. Thats just BS i dont need that takes up HD space. All i want is a regular external HD, 1-2tb (if those are stable) to store my anime on. Im not backing anything up, i just need to keep it on the hd. Im asuming these are all usb 2.0 btw for fast transfer speeds?
tnx guys. I just wanna get something thats not gonna die on me and cause me to lose tons of info, and that has a good transfer speed since i usually torrent from these things
Takeshi:
1. IMO the 1TB I have is performing flawlessly. Just don't use it to seed, it'll kill it. But that goes for any harddrive and not just 1-2TB. Also, try to avoid moving it too much, transporting it in a sports bag several times isn't a good idea imo. Especially if there's much space.
2. I have a WD Elements 1TB and a WD Passport 320GB, and they've yet to fail on me or performance bad. The Passport one does show some ageing in the case of disconnecting if I touch the USB cable, though I can't say I've been too good to it. Sometimes you forget it's connected because it's so small and you move your laptop. Bad stuff happens..
3. IMO that's a very good price, though quality can vary of course, my 1TB costed around $160-180 and it's very good quality.
EDIT: Have you tried looking through the Technology forum? There's several threads concerning this subject. Also, you should probably have posted this in that forum.
kenshin-dono:
--- Quote from: Takeshi on October 18, 2009, 06:27:49 PM ---1. IMO the 1TB I have is performing flawlessly. Just don't use it to seed, it'll kill it. But that goes for any harddrive and not just 1-2TB. Also, try to avoid moving it too much, transporting it in a sports bag several times isn't a good idea imo. Especially if there's much space.
2. I have a WD Elements 1TB and a WD Passport 320GB, and they've yet to fail on me or performance bad. The Passport one does show some ageing in the case of disconnecting if I touch the USB cable, though I can't say I've been too good to it. Sometimes you forget it's connected because it's so small and you move your laptop. Bad stuff happens..
3. IMO that's a very good price, though quality can vary of course, my 1TB costed around $160-180 and it's very good quality.
EDIT: Have you tried looking through the Technology forum? There's several threads concerning this subject. Also, you should probably have posted this in that forum.
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errr.. why is it bad to seed? Because thats what ive been doing for quite a while now, lol. All my animes on the external HD and i leave it on a lot to seed here. It doesn't get moved much, usually stays on the desk plugged into the laptop. I really need to know this because thats pretty much what its used for. Storing and d.loading/torrenting anime. So if that hurts it thats a problem o_O
i may look up that WD one. Are there any brands i should just stay away from? anyone know how HP is? One thing i definatly dont want are stupid autobackup programs.
hmm i didn't see the tech forum at all. It probably would be better over there. Can a mod move it over there? If not i guess maybe just lock this and i can repost there?
kenshin-dono:
hmm bit confused about something you mention earlier in the thread Calvary, which had a WD hd in it and a hammer that had something else inside
whats that all about? Are there brands out there that just use other manufacturers HDs? how does that even work? seems odd to me. Im curious because im looking for an external HD, had made a thread with some questinos over on the general board because i didn't see this one. Waiting for a mod to either move it here or lock it, but in the meantime i noticed this and figured id ask about that. I always asumed an external HDs manufacturer actually made the HD. Whats it actually do if its a different brands?
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