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For the past couple of years I've been using a couple 300GB SeaGate external hard drives and have been completely satisfied. I've never had any problems with them crashing or anything, and they seem fast and reliable.

I'm in the market, though, for a larger hard drive. Possibly 1-2 TB's. I've spent the past couple of hours reading reviews and it seems that every one I've looked at has gotten horrible reviews. Western Digital, Seagate, etc etc. I really like the looks of the Western Digital "My Book", but after some of the reviews I've read, I can't justify spending the money on it.

Does anyone have a mass external storage device that they're happy with and that they might recommend?

Thanks

I got an Iomega external 1TB HDD for like 200$ about a week ago from buy.com

no problems so far ...

Don't ever buy anything but Seagate. Best warranty in the business.

i have a seagate and a 500gb WD my book. i love the my book.

I've always had good luck with the My Books, but I seem to be in the minority.

Has anyone actually bought a Lacie? They seem to be the elitist hdd of choice.

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Originally posted by Progress Ent. Don't ever buy anything but Seagate. Best warranty in the business.

Highly considering the purchase of a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB

Haven't found many negative reviews, and the price seems very reasonable at Amazon.com

The Terabyte would be nice, but when you're talking about that much storage, I could always get another external down the line if need-be.

I really like the slick design of the WD My Book, but the nice looks won't mean much if it crashes and I lose a bunch of files.

Sasha uses the LaCie lol
i personally have a 160GB my book i got a while back, i use it for my torq data base and a bunch of other crap that one would use an external drive for

LaCie = poopy. I've had 3 drives have their firewire bridge FAIL. Drives were ok, but the SATA to FireWire bridge burnt out. Huge hassle, and G A Y.

Seagate, on the otherhand, I have the 500 GB mybook over with me and its solid! Love it! Even the insane iraqi dust can't beat it, its a good piece of kit!

my seagates internals always crashed. so far the external isn't crashing on me. and i have never had a problem with WD (internal and external). if anything they've been the only drives i've owned that haven't had problems.

I had Western Digital My Book Studio 750GB it lasted me awhile until one my kids knocked off the desk and broke it. But I was lucky had a hard drive recovery center moved data over to a drive just like it I just brought. Because my curious 3 year son broke 1 of connectors pins of it when fell on the ground. Then sent drive back to Western Digital for warranty work and got new one so I now 2 of same drive here. Best part was I had 5 year warranty on that drive if you got as a retail kit. Because of my kids I went and got some aluminum and made a stand for it and all.

I have the Western Digital 1TB Mybook.

Love it here, no complaints. It's quick, however if you don't use the drive it goes down into like a power saving mode and when you go to access it it takes about 2-5 seconds to turn back on.

I believe that can be fixed by turing off the power saving mgmt on usb hub controller that its connected to but it's not been that big of a problem to care about it really.

Looks sleek as hell too, weird how there is no FireWire thou

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Originally posted by SteelWolf LaCie = poopy. I've had 3 drives have their firewire bridge FAIL. Drives were ok, but the SATA to FireWire bridge burnt out. Huge hassle, and G A Y. Seagate, on the otherhand, I have the 500 GB mybook over with me and its solid! Love it! Even the insane iraqi dust can't beat it, its a good piece of kit!

What use do you have for a 500GB hard drive in the middle of a war zone?!

Modern warfare is a hell of a lot different to that in the 1940's.

If you're on the winning side I suppose...

If I remember right SteelWolf was stationed in Iraq or still is and took along his DJ gear with him and posted a picture of it in the bedroom DJ thread in the small room he had for a living quarters.

Is true. I brought my lappy and my m-audio xsessions pro (could have brought my XPonent instead but I ws looking for small and uber portable, plus if the xsession gets fucked up, I'm out only 100 bucks, not 599.) As for the HD? Got to have some place to store all the music I download off of beatport and audiojelly over here, plus the scores of photos and videos we take.

I have had to Maxtors with no problems. First an 80gig... back when that was a lot. Now I have a 500gb that I paid $130 for maybe a year ago.

Honestly, unless your into movies, 1TB is a shit load of space.

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Originally posted by jupiterone i have a seagate and a 500gb WD my book. i love the my book.

What computer are you using these with?

My problem (I'm calling it a problem after reading numerous reviews on external drives) is that I have a couple seagate external hard drives that I've been using with a gateway laptop. I recently purchased a Macbook Pro and am hoping to transfer all of my music to an external hard drive that is compatible with the Macbook. In order to transfer my files, however, I will need to hook this drive up to my Gateway laptop that is operating Windows XP.

It looks as if the Seagate FreeAgent Pro doesn't work well with Macs, and it looks like the WD MyBook Pro Edition doesn't work well with Windows Operating programs.

I've spent so much time reading reviews on these things and every single one has reviews that make me hesitant to decide.

the OS shoudlnt matter, its just a usb port.. the only thing is OS X doesnt play well with NTFS which is a windows proprietary filesystem but that has been fixed with NTFS-3g and/or Paragon NTFS for OS X

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Originally posted by stan229 the OS shoudlnt matter, its just a usb port.. the only thing is OS X doesnt play well with NTFS which is a windows proprietary filesystem but that has been fixed with NTFS-3g and/or Paragon NTFS for OS X

Thanks for the info

The Mybook Essential edition seems to get fairly good reviews in comparison to others. I think I'm going to go with this one and hope for the best:

http://www.buyzillion.com/b000vzceu...+Essential.html

There's also a great deal on slick deals for 750 GB My Book. You might wanna check it out. www.slickdeals.net

great recommendations in here. im in the market soon for a good quality external hard drive. I was going to get a LaCie but now im more interested in Seagate after reading the "iraqi dust" comment! LOL, awesome!

Yeah its a beast of an HD. Remember - lacie = POOPY, they use substandard parts.

I've got an "Acomdata" USB with 3.5" Seagate 7200 rpm inside, works fine for over 2 years for backups of music files, seems fast. No fan, cools OK with the aluminum case.

I use Windows which works best with NTFS, I could have used that but I left this external drive formatted as FAT32 so it's compatible with Mac in case I "switch".

i have a 160GB LaCie External and its crashed once...
and the power cable connection keeps breaking and i had to buy a new one recently.
also in the market for a 500GB HD.. not sure what to get right now.

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