Hi and an external HD question

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jbc

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I want to use my inital post to say hi and to ask a question. I have been working in the IT industry for the past thirty years but still no one person, no matter how much experience you have under your belt can know everything.

So my question is this - I need to purchase an external hard drive for my home PC in order to implement offsite backups. What is the reputation of Segate and Western Digital hard drives? I have a six month old 1TB Segate drive that is constantly spontaneously diconnecting from the PC, an older and smaller Western Digital external drive does not have any problem at all. So I am thinking of replacing the Segate with a 1TB Western Digital or perhaps a Buffalo or a Toshiba or a Clickfree drive. I am warry of the segate drives after having bought a dud.

How good or bad are the Western Digital, Toshiba and Clickfree drives?
 
jbc said:
I want to use my inital post to say hi and to ask a question. I have been working in the IT industry for the past thirty years but still no one person, no matter how much experience you have under your belt can know everything.

So my question is this - I need to purchase an external hard drive for my home PC in order to implement offsite backups. What is the reputation of Segate and Western Digital hard drives? I have a six month old 1TB Segate drive that is constantly spontaneously diconnecting from the PC, an older and smaller Western Digital external drive does not have any problem at all. So I am thinking of replacing the Segate with a 1TB Western Digital or perhaps a Buffalo or a Toshiba or a Clickfree drive. I am warry of the segate drives after having bought a dud.

How good or bad are the Western Digital, Toshiba and Clickfree drives?
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Out of the 3, I would go WD, but it seems you have a dud Seagate, rather than one that reflects the true quality of them. If your seagate drive is only 6 months old, you should be able to RMA it and claim the warranty. If you get it, you can test it, and if that has the same problem on your system, I would say your computer just doesn't like the drives for whatever reason.

Then you could sell the drive as new, get one of the others with the money you make and see if it has the same problem
 
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