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| Sukhoi29SU |
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?
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| leph555 |
I got an Iomega external 1TB HDD for like 200$ about a week ago from buy.com
no problems so far ... |
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| Progress Ent. |
| Don't ever buy anything but Seagate. Best warranty in the business. |
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| jupiterone |
| i have a seagate and a 500gb WD my book. i love the my book. |
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| inconspicuous |
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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| Sukhoi29SU |
| quote: | 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. |
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| stan229 |
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 |
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| 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! |
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| jupiterone |
| 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. |
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| wesleysnipez |
| 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. |
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| r5a |
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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| Beat Blog |
| quote: | 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... |
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