They are reliable, if a bit slow.
Posted on 04/02/2013 11:20:43 AM PDT by max americana
Hi. Just wondering if anyone who owns one of these external hard drives (portable or desk) have a preference. Or if they had some bad experiences or better yet, swear by either one of the 2 if they crash easily or last long. We're changing our hard drives and prefer something physical to store for our staff, instead of relying solely on cloud-based storage. (Got rid of Carbonite when those clowns backstabbed Rush and we switched to Mozy)
It's almost 50/50 on people we spoke with (friends, co-workers, business partners etc). Some say Seagate sucks and crash easily while the other group say the same thing about WD. 4 TB is our storage target. Thanks.
PS Seagate sells the 4 TB ext HD on AMZ/best buy for $150 while the WD My Book is $180.
Have a Seagate with HUGE storage capability. No issues. Easily holds everything on my computers.
I have been using a WD My Book as a storage drive for many years. It has nowhere near the capacity you are looking for (80GB), but it gets a lot of use and has been reliable.
WD drives have usually held up well for me either internal or external. No other brand has stood up as well for me. It is the brand I recommend to buy for replacement and I haven’t been chewed for it yet.
I have both and couldn’t care less.
I prefer the interface for WD software, while others prefer Seagate.
Everyone’s mileage differs.
I suppose you have to bench them across the network, if that is how you using them.
If you are using them at the server level I becomes and either or question.
BTW, had dinner at a restaurant in Encino called Boca, last month.
It’s a Kosher place and the food was excellent. The next day I had lunch at Aroma’s on Sunset, another Jewish deli and the food was just terrific.
I hate the skinny little actor wannabe waiters though. Cept the chicks.
LOL
I just bought a Seagate last month for $89 with 1 Terabyte storage(100gig?). It took about 1 hour to backup everything “backupable” as it determined with the 1 touch command. Seems to work fine for me.
I think the Western SeaMonkey crayon drives are the most reliable.
They are reliable, if a bit slow.
Just make sure you have a back up.
I've had one of each brand and they both crashed with data loss.
I got new Seagates and run them in a raid array. I'm a slow learner.
My three grand daughters can recreat, or create, any data stream that fits their fancy! Priceless Art! Perpetuity!
Western Digital.
So far, I'm very pleased with it.
Private and public areas, pretty good security features, sleeps, accessible from offsite via the internet. I have mine set up as an NFS, connected via cable to the wifi router. No issues with any devices on the network locating or accessing the public areas.
Also, it has proprietary backup capabilities that I haven't used yet.
I have a WD My Passport. I plugged it in. Now what do I do with it? No instructions came with it. It now sets on my shelf with other computer equipment which came without instructions.
Even bringing up the web page did not tell me what to do with it!
I’ve got one of each, no probs with either one.
Dont suppose that info'll do you much good now, though.
??? What did you buy it for?
I currently have a Seagate USB 3.0 external drive, and it has been great. I don't use the software bundled with the drive: I simply use Windows 7 backup.
This Seagate drive is actually a 2.5 inch laptop drive, and is powered through the USB port. If you want higher capacity 3.5 drive, you'll have to get one that is self-powered.
I recently bought one of these on sale: ORICO 6518SUS3-BK USB3.0&E-SATA SATA HDD Docking Station/Enclosure. Buy any bare SATA drive (retail or OEM) and insert it into the dock. It works with both 3.5 drives and 2.5 drives.
The dock supports USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and eSATA. If you are going to go with a self-powered drive, I suggest eSATA: it's faster than USB 3.0 for random access. For sustained read/write, they appear to be about the same.
Once you plug it in, you should see another drive in "My Computer", or whatever you call it.
There may be some software on it that will backup your computer. But, some versions have no software. Either way, you can just use the backup software that comes with your OS: Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Google "Window ___ backup", and fill in "7", "Vista", or "XP", depending on what you have.
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