I've been pressing my luck for far too long by not having a backup hard drive on my system. So I need to just do something. I don't need a huge HD, 250-500GB would suffice. I've read tons of reviews on Newegg and Amazon, and I can't decide what approach is best. Should I buy an enclosed drive, or a drive and an enclosure. Being my main concern is longevity/reliability, is one approach better than the other? It seems like all the popular drives I've read about (Seagate FreeAgent, WD MyBook, etc) have some non-zero infant mortality rate. Is there a line of consumer drives that are known to be more robust than others? Any advice appreciated.
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External Hard Drive Questions
- Thread starter Elan
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javabean
TUG Member
Good evening,
I can't comment on the type of external hard drive to get but I would like to remind everyone not to leave their hard drive sitting next to the computer when traveling. If your house is broken into and your computer stolen you don't want anyone to walk off with all your backup information. Hide it, give it to a friend to hold for you, or put it into your safe deposit box. It's great to have backup, but not so great if you lose that backup.
Happy New Year.
Deb
I can't comment on the type of external hard drive to get but I would like to remind everyone not to leave their hard drive sitting next to the computer when traveling. If your house is broken into and your computer stolen you don't want anyone to walk off with all your backup information. Hide it, give it to a friend to hold for you, or put it into your safe deposit box. It's great to have backup, but not so great if you lose that backup.
Happy New Year.
Deb
T_R_Oglodyte
TUG Lifetime Member
I've gone through several. My favorite, by far, are a couple of Maxtor One-Touch units that I picked up on a special at Fry's. I do incremental backups nightly, and I swap out the drives about every two weeks. The drive not in active use is in our safe deposit box.
We have several WD My Books and have never had a problem.
Good point, javabean!
We also copy the important docs to thumb drives, and another good idea is an occasional copy of irreplaceable stuff like photos to a CD to put in your safety deposit box.
Good point, javabean!
We also copy the important docs to thumb drives, and another good idea is an occasional copy of irreplaceable stuff like photos to a CD to put in your safety deposit box.
Thanks for the responses. Steve, curious if you use the Maxtor portable drives or the desktop version. The desktop version gets hammered in most reviews I've read, FWIW. Glad you've had good luck with your drives.
Jim
Jim
Keitht
TUG Lifetime Member
I can't advise on this, but the comment above did make me smile. When I started a new IT support job in 1993, the 'power user' desktops had 40mb hard drives and 8mb of memory. The standard users had 20mb drives and 4mb memory.
I'm not convinced that much of the software we use today has made us any more productive either.
JoePa
TUG Member
More memory... More productive os bigger pack rats ???