External Hard Drives

Wheaty214

Wheaty214

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Anybody have any suggestions for hard drives?

I've been trying to take into consideration the average lifespan of different drives, transfer speeds (Thunderbolt seems to be the fastest available for my Macbook Pro), and storage size.

I'm fine with 1TB of space, as I'm just using them for storing my photos. Anymore would be overkill considering I typically delete the pictures I'm not too fond of.

Any help would be much appreciated!
 
You probably want a hard drive thats portable, doesn't need to plug into the wall, and thunderbolt is great but I'd go with USB 3.0 to keep it universal.

Suggestions:

I have this drive, I love it
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ogy_0g02874_1tb_7200_g_drive_mobile_usb3.html

I've used this drive before, liked it
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/ME6UM7T10G16/

"rugged" drives that are also decent. but 5400 rpm drive is a disappointment
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/813173-REG/LaCie_301558_Rugged_Mini_Portable_Hard.html

Overall, something with usb 3.0, 7200 rpm drive and about $90-100 is what you're looking at for 1tb. Feel free to ask any questions, i can probably help ya out.
 
13711630:eheath said:
You probably want a hard drive thats portable, doesn't need to plug into the wall, and thunderbolt is great but I'd go with USB 3.0 to keep it universal.

Suggestions:

I have this drive, I love it
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ogy_0g02874_1tb_7200_g_drive_mobile_usb3.html

I've used this drive before, liked it
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/ME6UM7T10G16/

"rugged" drives that are also decent. but 5400 rpm drive is a disappointment
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/813173-REG/LaCie_301558_Rugged_Mini_Portable_Hard.html

Overall, something with usb 3.0, 7200 rpm drive and about $90-100 is what you're looking at for 1tb. Feel free to ask any questions, i can probably help ya out.
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How long have you had the G-Drive? I have one and it's starting to shit out on me, might be the connection cord though, as it randomly "unplugs" from my Mac.
 
13711637:Wheaty214 said:
How long have you had the G-Drive? I have one and it's starting to shit out on me, might be the connection cord though, as it randomly "unplugs" from my Mac.
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It's been solid for like 4 months now or so, gtech makes great stuff, but any hard drive is prone to failure. You're not going to buy a brand that will never crash, so always keep that in mind and backup your stuff!
 
seagate can't be trusted.

I had a 2tb drive that just stopped working after 8 months. didn't drop it or anything, it was fine one day and clicking the next.
 
13711650:GORILLAWALLACE said:
seagate can't be trusted.

I had a 2tb drive that just stopped working after 8 months. didn't drop it or anything, it was fine one day and clicking the next.
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Seagate actually makes a TON of drives for many different companies, the odds are you just got unlucky, seagate makes great internal drives.

You can really dog a company because your hard drive crashed, that shit just happens, its impossible to prevent.
 
I have two My Passport drives, one of which I've been using for over two years now. Works perfect and the My Passport drives are generally pretty affordable, would highly recommend
 
I love Western Digital! I've had there 1 TB passport for 3 years now and it's awesome. Just recently bough a 4TB my book after my passport nearly crashed. Now I back everything up and it's been worth it. The truth is that no drive is uncrahsable but the fact that I was able to go 3.5 years with one hard drive and only have a slight problem is amazing. I put that thing through a lot to. Traveling and all I even dropped it once or twice (don't recommend it)
 
I've only ever used a Lacie drive in school but they worked great. Can't tell you about how long a life they have though. They're really rugged so that's a plus.
 
13712262:.lencon said:
I just ordered one a few days ago.

what are some tips to keep it in working order?
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Don't drop it or get it wet (normal electronic stuff), don't move it while its in use, keep it packed inside a tshirt or something if you travel with it.
 
13712291:eheath said:
Don't drop it or get it wet (normal electronic stuff), don't move it while its in use, keep it packed inside a tshirt or something if you travel with it.
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I did get one thats shock proof but yeah I don't plan on dropping it. I did not know that i couldn't move it while in use though.
 
13712302:.lencon said:
I did get one thats shock proof but yeah I don't plan on dropping it. I did not know that i couldn't move it while in use though.
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It's not a huge deal if you do just try to be really really gentle and don't accidentally shake it or stuff like that
 
honestly fuck them.

twice in my lifetime i bought a good quality drive to store my old files.

after about 2-4 years storage in a safe place, both broke and all my data was lost.

go for cloud storage, hard drives is so 2005
 
13712536:T-Nutcracker said:
honestly fuck them.

twice in my lifetime i bought a good quality drive to store my old files.

after about 2-4 years storage in a safe place, both broke and all my data was lost.

go for cloud storage, hard drives is so 2005
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Well yeah, hard drives were never meant to last forever, even DVDs will "rot" is a sense after 10-15 years and wont work anymore. Cloud storage is great if you have less than like 50GB of files to save and you can't work on media files on a cloud.

The best way to keep important files is using multiple drives in a RAID system, replacing drives when they fail.
 
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