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Western Digital or Seagate
kamuixtv99:
Thanks for your replies.
Done a little back reading. So Elements/Greens are good for storage and viewing videos when I need to. Drives that use as a main drive (torrenting/encoding/games) are throw aways, it's up to the user's choice if it's Blue or Black (really pricey). Elements seems bulky and needs a power plug (seems annoying for me), what about passports? I bet they are greens too.
kitamesume:
im using passports and no issues in >6months of usage.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: kamuixtv99 on September 15, 2012, 05:43:53 AM ---Thanks for your replies.
Done a little back reading. So Elements/Greens are good for storage and viewing videos when I need to. Drives that use as a main drive (torrenting/encoding/games) are throw aways, it's up to the user's choice if it's Blue or Black (really pricey). Elements seems bulky and needs a power plug (seems annoying for me), what about passports? I bet they are greens too.
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If you want storage elements is the way to go.
If you want the drive for torrenting then I would suggest Black. Caviar Black not Scorpio Black. Both have a 5 year warranty but caviar Black is better.
If you want to play games and encode stuff from it I would suggest Velociraptor. It's the fastest drive IMO.
Elements is basically a caviar Green drive put into an compact enclosure. While the Caviar Green drives don't have a very good reputation elements is considered as one of the best externals. As far as the Power plug goes every drive with >1TB capacity needs an external power supply.
And about the Passport drives, they don't need any external power and are available in less than or equal to 1TB capacity. I haven't used any so you can refer to kitaMesume post.
kamuixtv99:
K. We are only talking about 2 brands here. I just browsed our local online computer store.
EDIT:
I have 2.5 ide Toshiba but that was long ago it's a 10gb still alive though.
Too bad. I just learned that WD in our country has bad after sales support like their office is a 4 hour commute total (back and forth) and it's only available in that city or I have to pay $30 or more when they ship it to Singapore for warranty purposes (Strange, with Seagate it's free) while Toshiba has no warranty at all. Plus in our local forum they prefer Seagate obviously not all of them are highly intensive users when it comes to hdds. Don't tell me that I'm a Seagate fan it was good years ago.
Dhruv:
Get a 3TB Elements if you can. It's for less than $200.
And as far as Toshiba Drives go.. i have no knowledge about them. Wait for someone else to answer your Question or try reading the entire thread. Maybe you'll find the answer.
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