julian.gang

Thank you...Julian

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

I've had 3 go south... two books and one passport... Only use Seagate... My wife's TV has two 8T Seagates... and have been up and running for the last few years without a glitch, and they get a lot of use.

Dik

julian.gang

Thank you...Julian

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Have two My Passports.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

I've been using WD for years with no problems. I like the 4TB size because when you read and write a little green light on the drive blinks showing action. The 8TB WD USB drive works fine but no blinking light.

Ted d Loc: Green Valley, AZ.

I use the WD my cloud. It consists of 2 WD and it formated te to run Raid 0 which doubles the capacity.It is connected to my router and it backs up as I work. The most useful advantage of having this is when I,m away from home I can always retrive my files. WD sells the system or around $200,00.

Boris Ekner Loc: From Sweden, living in Guatemala

I have two WD’s, 3TB each. Both are the old technology with the spinning disks. When it’s time for updates it will be the new technology based on memory/USB sticks - whatever that’s called.

Rickyb

We use them constantly, but not over 2GB. Smaller is better you can loose less info.

charlienow Loc: Hershey, PA

I have several hd’s Bothered and seagate. Had problems with segate but none with Ed.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

I've got three, two of which are four terabyte. Of course they come out with new models all the time so mine may not be exactly the same as the one you were considering. In my experience Western Digital drives tend to be very reliable. But, hard drives do fail, and eventually sooner or later will fail. That's why I have 3 backup drives. When I backup my photos and other files I always back it up to three separate drives at the same time.

unlucky2 Loc: Hemet Ca.

Yes, suggest using a VPN

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

I also have both a WD and a Seagate. Both work well. Bought both from Costco on sale.

InfiniteISO Loc: The Carolinas, USA

If you run raid 0 with two disks you see a performance boost, but no redundancy. If one disk of a Raid 0 unit fails you loose all your files. Raid 1 is a mirror system, very reliable, but since everything gets copied to both disks, the capacity is not doubled, it is instead equal to the size of one drive.

I too have had better luck with WD vs. Seagate, but all hard drives fail. As some have mentioned the upper tiers of storage devices are best and they are not often included in the portable units.

I would highly recommend that regardless of how many hard drives you have, that everyone get an SSHD, a set of memory sticks or even a group of dedicated SD cards and save the raw files of your absolute favorite images. So if you have something that you would likely print or hang on the wall, make a copy of that raw file to a separate directory and occasionally reconcile that directory to a storage medium with no moving parts. Store that in a fire proof safe in a tupperware container that has a silica gel pack. Fireproof safes get wet when they go to put the fire out. You can get 1000 30 MB raw files on a 32 GB thumb drive.

Also, you shouldn't leave your remote drives connected to your computer. A friend of mine had a power company transformer failure during an electrical storm, every appliance and computer in his house was fried including his remote drives that were attached to his laptop.

NJphotodoc Loc: Now in the First State

I use a WD drive I bought at Costco (great place to get computer accessories) as an external drive tethered to my Buffalo NAS. Never had a problem and it is extremely fast. Plus the Buffalo NAS server lets me upload download over their VPN so I have full access to my files.

throughrhettseyes Loc: Rowlett, TX

I have had 4 external drives and 3 of them are WD. I have had them for over 3 years. I had one Seagate 4 tb drive that quite. I suspected the power supply went bad so I cut it out of the box and mounted internally in my pc and it was fine. So don't ever toss your bad external hd because it probably is good on the inside. I did have an older Segate 2tb drive that started making clicking sounds and that usually means a broken reader arm inside the drive. I couldn't save it. So yes WD externals are cool. I think I'll go buy another one. You can never have enough TERABYTES!