cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

The only issue I have with G-Technology is that you never know what drive(s) are inside until you get it. With LaCie it will now be a Seagate. Best of luck.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

This may seem off the subject but it really is not. Storing your hard drives when not in use. The best place to store your hard drives would be the old refrigerator. You simply place it in a convenient location, mine are in the garage, along with a top load old freezer. The freezer hold years of prints, and negatives and transparencies are in old refrigerators along with the hard drives. I also have an old refrigerator painted yellow and marked 'flammable' where combustibles are stored.

The fridges have ALL the electrical and other parts removed. These are now fire proof storage units. Guess what, after fire the larger issue in a fire is all the water used to put out the fire. Firemen will tell you the one thing that survives a fire is a refrigerator, even falling several floors through the floor they are on!

One last thing, the University of Texas now does NOT discard refrigerators, they gut them of the electrical/cooling systems and use them as fire proof storage units. A standard house hold refrigerator meets and exceeds OSH requirements for fire proof/solvent storage units.

Just though I would share this with you all.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

That is very cool information to know. No pun intended.
--Bob

Flyerace Loc: Mt Pleasant, WI

I have 3 WD external drives. Only program files are on my PC. All photos and documents are on the externals. Backup of the main external is done to the second ED, then the Second is copied to the third. Who knows how long it will work, but with 5T of space on each one, I don't expect to run out of space soon.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

I have an 8TB Seagate that I really like, its super small, smaller than a pack of cigarettes, that's all, its plug'n play and cheap, I paid $ 130!

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I have a close friend who is the IT person in the southern district for the US Air Force, his job involves monitoring all e-mail communications going into and out of the district recording ALL communications. When I asked him what he though the best external hard drives were he said Seagate. The Government uses Seagate for it's back up. So I use Seagate for my hard drive back up.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Seagate Barracudas are good. I have three as externals. My primary in the desktop is a WD Enterprise drive (Gold).

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

I filled my 2 TB WD My Book external and replaced it with a new 8 TB WD My Book. I never had a problem with my original 1 TB WD My Book, nor with the 2 TB. I've had the 8 TB for about a year with no problems either. The drive comes with backup software and I have mine set to backup every night at 1 AM. The drive is USB 3, so it's reasonably fast.