Suggestions for RELIABLE External Hard Drive?

Vigor

Vigor

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I used to own this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136022. Which broke in two weeks or so. It was slow, crashed at times, and finally heated up and broke, along with the data I can't recover...

I am looking for a hard drive from of your knowledge is very reliable regardless of the brand.

I used to own a Seagate one (the gray square shaped one 80gb) lasted 1 year and broke.

**Preferably looking for 250+ GB.



Thank you for your time and help.
 
I thought I'd suggest the idea of using an Internal HDD you know is reliable and placing it in an external casing and using that for your external media storage? Works a treat for me, plus it's cheaper.

Rove.
 
I've personally never seen a WD drive go while it can happen no matter what make you buy! That's one thing to know about. I've pondered over buying a WD 500gb model while browsing a retail store and wondered about the WD Workbooks. But decided to stay internal by adding two 500gb sata drives to current build to supplement the two ide drives in use. One of the ide drives will remain in this case when the new one is completed. The new build may see two new 750gb drives for an array there.

The best tool for backups? data dvds where "if and when"? the worst happens at least you have made frequent backups! A professional service for a high price could still be used for rescuing files from the disks inside the old drive if those were personal and not simply media files or game saves, whatever there. High price though!
 
Any drive can fail. I had a Seagate DOA. I had 2 WD's and 1 Maxtor die, but they were all over 5 years old.
 
I've seen WD drives that would still work sitting around far longer like a few 20mb and 50mb drives. But in any manufacturing some defects do get out where you will see a drive fail prematurely like sometimes within a few months. You might even run into a bad drive out of a box on a rare occasion. When first getting into pcs like the old IBM boat anchors I asked a genius with this stuff about drives and was told stay with WD. He was right! I've never seen one fail here in all these years.
 
I like W/D the best, thats what I run and install in all the computers that I build, but I,ve used them all and (all) brands have some that fail at some point in time, even W/D. You just havent used enough yet, but to me out of the hunderds of W/D I,ve used they do have a better less failure rate than most drives. But W/D do fail!
 
TheMajor said:
I have an 11 year old Maxtor, still running. And another very old IBM drive, also working.
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Amazing! You have a Maxtor that lasted that long? :P But some years ago when Maxtor had the 16gb drive out while WD had their 13gb model seen as the largest ide drives available one specialist with "everything" stated "stay away from Maxtors! I had one fly apart! They are too brittle! Stay with WD!" plus some other comments. phew!

By that time the old IBM I386 was ready for retirement anyways and along came what? an AST with a 500mb WD drive! But I needed more drive space. The 1.4gb that replaced that fast still sits in a 95 Packard Bell that still runs today. Gee that Seagate 1.2gb didn't quite make it that came with the PB system there.
 
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