TriX wrote:
With those dirt cheap externals, you get exactly what you pay for. You just cannot build a QUALITY HD, case, interface, power supply and cable, QC it properly, support it properly, market it, wholesale it, mark it up and still make a profit. You have no idea what the drive is in that case, but you can bet it’s the cheapest drive that is available. Instead, buy a quality drive and an external case and take the 5 minutes it takes to assemble it - that way you know exactly the quality of the drive that’s inside. You probably spent more that $59 for your cheapest lens and maybe at least 10x that for the camera. Why would you trust the product (your images) of all that time, effort and money to the cheapest storage you can find?
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Was not saying I was an expert. Just to reply to an individual asking for advice and for my thoughts. I don't know but I so far don't have any complaint about the WD External Hard Drives. I take a lot of pictures also. About 7 years ago I learned a valuable lesson. I lost over 3200 pictures due to a crash of my Hard Drive. I was able to recover some of them but lost several hundreds. I was never to do that again. I don't believe there's a foolproof system.. With computers sometimes it is not perfect unless you are yourself. Have a good day and have a "Happy Thanksgiving". With the way things are going in this country we all need some up lifting.