External Hard Drives: I am in the market for a new external hard drive. Not sure what brand would you reccomend. DMF...

DMF

I am in the market for a new external hard drive. Not sure what brand would you reccomend. DMF

Victor S Loc: SouthCoast MA

WD Passport. I have a 2TB

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

I also use the WD Passport. I use two of the 1Tb versions and you can get the for about $80 now.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

There are so many these days.

Buy at least a 2-3Tb

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/external-hdds

That said I do like this, it is very fast and get USB3 if you can as the difference is great.

http://www.dabs.com/products/toshiba-2tb-canvio-usb-3-0-3-5--desktop-hard-drive--black--8L57.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc%20product%20search&utm_content=Q200&utm_campaign=Components%20and%20Storage%20-%20Hard%20Drives%20-%20External%20Hard%20Drives&origin=pla

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

DMF wrote:

I am in the market for a new external hard drive. Not sure what brand would you reccomend. DMF

If you're going to use this for storing images, consider getting 2 and have one mirror the other.

doduce Loc: Holly Springs NC

I use Seagate, but if you read customer reviews on amazon, you'll find they all have similar good and bad points. I use Seagate--I have 2 500Gb, a 2TB and a 4TB--since I've never had problems.

Musket Loc: ArtBallin'

I use a WD Passport 2TB external. I Have 4 of them for a total of 8TB and 6TB more shoved in a NAS for extra backup fun.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

doduce wrote:

I use Seagate, but if you read customer reviews on amazon, you'll find they all have similar good and bad points. I use Seagate--I have 2 500Gb, a 2TB and a 4TB--since I've never had problems.

what manufacturer does the 4tb external drive

I have 4 x 4tb internals

tramsey Loc: Texas

I used to use external hard drives until lightening hit my house and burned out everything that was plugged in and the second time my house was burglarized. They took the whole system external drives, the mouse everything. Now I use Carbonite, fifty five dollars a year for unlimited amount and it is all automatic. Lightening can't burn it up and thieves can't steal it. :D :D

doduce Loc: Holly Springs NC

JR1 wrote:

what manufacturer does the 4tb external drive

I have 4 x 4tb internals

Seagate. I have their Seagate Backup Plus 4TB. See the link below.

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-STCA4000100/dp/B00829THLE/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1383168557&sr=1-1&keywords=seagate+backup+plus+4tb

doduce Loc: Holly Springs NC

tramsey wrote:

I used to use external hard drives until lightening hit my house and burned out everything that was plugged in and the second time my house was burglarized. They took the whole system external drives, the mouse everything. Now I use Carbonite, fifty five dollars a year for unlimited amount and it is all automatic. Lightening can't burn it up and thieves can't steal it. :D :D

In addition to my 4 Seagate drives, I also use Carbonite. Belt-and-suspenders kind of guy!!! :-D

Speaking of which, I wouldn't recommend getting the Mirror Drive set up with Carbonite. It really is only useful in restoring your system and apps if it is going back on the same computer. If you lose the mother board, which is worst case, it is of no value. all you could do in that case is restore the data files from the Carbonite cloud and reinstall all your applications manually.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

tramsey wrote:

I used to use external hard drives until lightening hit my house and burned out everything that was plugged in and the second time my house was burglarized. They took the whole system external drives, the mouse everything. Now I use Carbonite, fifty five dollars a year for unlimited amount and it is all automatic. Lightening can't burn it up and thieves can't steal it. :D :D

That's why I have always used belkin surge protection doesn't everyone have surge protected plugs

farnsworth52 Loc: W. Pa.

I use WD but I unplug it after updates. I'm kinda waiting for my system to get struck by lightning. I have a surge protector strip with a $2500 warranty. My system is getting long in the tooth and I'm ready for it's demize. I hope the warranty is good.

kejoed Loc: Wales UK

Being a cheapskate i had 2 old computers, I took out the hard drives bought a caddy for £5 ( about 3$) and they do for me I connect them connect thro USB whichever one contains the library i want

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

I've had a Buffalo 1TB drive made up of 4 250GB drives configured with Raid 5 for about 6 years now. Had power supply replaced about 18 mos ago. Also have Syslogic with 2 drives totaling 3TB configured with Raid ) - had this about 18 mos no problem so far