External hard drive.. (Page 2): I have an Seagate 2TB drive that's about a dozen years old and it performs as new, never any issues! And all I paid was about 60bucks!

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Sep 3, 2019 17:33:01 #

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

connievloutely wrote:

I am looking for some advice on an external hard drive with a capacity of 2 tb.

I have used Seagate and western digital in the past.

what is the current best brand for reliability.

Your thoughts please!

I have an Seagate 2TB drive that's about a dozen years old and it performs as new, never any issues! And all I paid was about 60bucks!

Sep 3, 2019 19:05:30 #

connievloutely Loc: Quaker State (PA)

I want to thank everyone for their input.

I learned a lot. I like the idea of using an external enclosure with a fan.

Sep 3, 2019 20:17:27 #

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

speters wrote:

I have an Seagate 2TB drive that's about a dozen years old and it performs as new, never any issues! And all I paid was about 60bucks!

Some Seagates were good and some were bad, depending on when and where they were built. I have a couple old Seagate Baracuda SCSI drives that must be 25 years old, and the last time I tried they still worked, BUT there was the notorious Chettah 7 failures where the reportedly took back >a million drives under warranty and Backblaze’s tests a year or two ago when a particular model Seagate had a 35% failure rate in the first year. Like all drives, depends on the model and what factory they were built in. It will be interesting to see if HGST keeps up their excellent reliability record now that they have been acquired, but depending on the model, their Backblaze failure rate has been consistently at the bottom of the list (which is where you want to be) typically in the 1-1.5% range per year.

Sep 3, 2019 22:17:15 #

potica69

connievloutely wrote:

For over 10 years I have used Western Digital external hard drives.

1) several destop book-sized ones
2) several "My Passport" small ones with huge amounts of storage

I never had one problem with any of the perhaps 8 of them I bought.

Sep 4, 2019 06:31:04 #

eadler

Think about a SSD. No moving parts and therefore much less likely to fail.

Sep 4, 2019 06:51:34 #

wolfd Loc: Vancouver, Canada

rmalarz wrote:

My external drives are all G-Tech drives.
--Bob

G-Technology is a brand of Western Digital.

Sep 4, 2019 06:56:51 #

pahtspix

I've had a Buffalo Drives Station Duo 4tb drive which gave me 2 TB on Raid 1. This has been my"storage" drive through 2 computers since early 2012..NO failures. It is now "Full", and I purchased the same drive as a 6TB on Raid 1, giving me 3 TB of storage..It's been running for 3-4 months with no issues. These Drives are made in Japan, and sold by B&H and Amazon..They are very quiet and run cool as they have an internal fan. Also shoud on of the didcs fail, the drives are user swapable, so the bad disk can be removed, and a new one dropped in it's place, and will copy the tandem mirrored drive..The 6TB drive was about $280 USD.

Sep 4, 2019 07:14:55 #

khorinek

connievloutely wrote:

I use Western Digital with no problems. All my external hardrives are 1TB. Iv'e thought about going larger but if you do have one fail, you only lose 1TB of images not 2TB.

Sep 4, 2019 07:32:31 #

Baysitter11 Loc: Cincinnati

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

LaCie is ruggedized with the orange shock collar. I see Pros with them all the time on location. 4Tb $180 on Amazon.

My go to EHD.😉

Sep 4, 2019 07:37:36 #

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

I use Buffalo - just replaced one that I used for 9 years. And then only because Buffalo and other "techies" told my I should

Sep 4, 2019 07:55:53 #

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

get the largest HD you can afford. I prefer WD

Sep 4, 2019 08:15:50 #

bikerguy

I have 5 external drives. One computer has a five year old WD doing backups. The other computer had a 5TB Seagate external drive and 2 TB external drives as backup. I change them monthly and store one in a bank safe deposit box. Additionally I have a 10 year old 1 TB Seagate portable drive that I take travelling as part of our backup system. They are all consumer grade and none have ever failed. Any mechanical device will fail, we have had 2 SD cards fail on trips, it happens. That is why we create backups.

Sep 4, 2019 08:59:49 #

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Catch the link:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/most-reliable-hard-drives/

I've had grief with WD, but not used their 'Reds'. Currently use Seagate, and have had no issues... have four 8TB drives... one each for my desktops and two for the TV set.

Dik

Sep 4, 2019 09:10:16 #

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I think that the risk of drive failure is way over hyped. Just stick with a popular brand.

Sep 4, 2019 09:16:08 #

bikerguy

gvarner wrote:

I think that the risk of drive failure is way over hyped. Just stick with a popular brand.

My thoughts exactly. I have a double back up system plus the external HDD. If one of the drives fails (it has never happened) I will replace it and load the data from the latest backup. I have one backup offsite (in a bank vault) in case of fire.

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