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External Hard Drive

19-Sep-13 07:05

Does anyone have a preference for brand of external drive?

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WraithInTraining

19-Sep-13 07:22

Lacie seems to make a good drive, the three out of four I have had over the years have had no issue. for myself what I like to do is put a internal drive I trust into a enclosure and only use it storage and data back up.

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19-Sep-13 13:24

==gig per $ ... no specific brand for me.

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25-Sep-13 03:34

I've had failed drives from pretty much all of the major hard drive manufacturers, unfortunately modern hard drives are fairly poor in regards to reliability. I've also gone through 5 enterprise grade Raptor and Velociraptor drives in the last few years, this year alone I've had at least 10TB worth of drive failures.

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25-Sep-13 04:11

I brought a samsung external hard drive for my notebook.
It seemed a flimsy affair but worked for about a year before it dumped it's software and made it usless.
Wish I could get it going again.

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27-Sep-13 11:07

^anyone goin to take this one on?

or do i dare try?

Oh Great Wombat, am I goin to regret this?

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27-Sep-13 14:22

Oh Woders, tit wiz feractic effort needed.

Carry On

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1-Oct-13 12:17

OK, ferst the werd brought means 'to bring'
bought means 'to buy'

now, does this HD make a sound when you power it up? any whiz bang crunch bzzzt tish zzzzt bing thud .... if so ..... bash it .... no wait don't do that, give it a kiss ...... wait thats a bit ... ya know ... less than a man should show in public.

so does it make any sound on power up?

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8-May-20 08:58

For the last several years,I only use Western Digital.All the other brands,that I have tried have failed.A type that relied on a power cord failed in less than a year. I dedicate each drive for specific stuff & or particular windows. Like 7 VS 10...I have rescued most of my audio cassettes,LP and CD`s and have the wav files on them. I do not trust leaving stuff on a internal drive. If,a download works or solves a problem,I leave a copy of the file on a WD drive.A few,I do selective backup. I will never save stuff where Microsoft try`s to force you save stuff.

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