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.
I have several WD units of various sizes.
They do require a USB board with good power connections to run them.
If any external drive doesn’t show up on the computer, it means that your usb port isn’t delivering enough power to operate the drive.
Get a better USB card.
External Hard drives: Western Digital or Seagate?
Pick one. Don't worry about it.
I have a Seagate 1 TB drive, no problems or issues with it. Seagate also owns Maxtor - I have had trouble with an older Maxtor drive.
I run macrium here, and it’s very good.
Seagate is good. Not sure about the other.
All are .. and have been .. working fine, quietly and quickly. I must admit though that I prefer the Fantoms because they are designed to be used horizontally or vertically while the Seagate that I have can only be used horizontally.
As an aside, all of the internal hard drives that I have are Seagate.
Seagate is good. Not sure about the other.
LOL. I used to work at Tempo for years, the restaurant Boca was before it was bought out. My buddies work there lol. I’ve been wondering how it is. Never been. Too weird..
I just had an external Western Digital, “My Book” fail. Sadly it has family pictures on it and I will need to send it out for recovery.
Have you sent any hard drives out for recovery? Who do you recommend?
In the past I used OnTrack. Excellent service. Expensive, but they have tools you can try yourself before sending it to them. Worth checking out, IMO.
I never do send any HD for recovery. Too many skeletons and private stuff in them. the best way for recovery? have a copy and yeah, I also have a Mybook WD EXTHD.
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