rex
Posts:295
 | | 07/07/2007 6:55 PM |
 Alert | | Does anyone have a Seagate external hard drive? I'm looking at a 250g as a second backup. I've got a Western Digital 250g now. Any problems with any of these or maybe a Maxtor? | | | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/07/2007 6:59 PM |
Alert | | Don't go Maxtor! Seagate bought them but they are still the same cheap hard drives that they were before. Seagate is known for making quiet, long-lasting hard drives. Western Digital is OK too, but I've got one that I've had to replace 2 times (meaning I'm on the 3rd one), so I personally wouldn't get another one. | |
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rex
Posts:295
| | 07/07/2007 7:19 PM |
Alert | | Cool thanks. The Seagate is like $60-70. WD is $109. I've got an old WD that I'm throwing in the garbage next to the raw meat and banana peels. If Seagate is good then I'll try something new. | | | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/07/2007 7:48 PM |
Alert | | Make sure you have the drive wiped before getting rid of it. | |
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rex
Posts:295
| | 07/07/2007 7:51 PM |
Alert | | Will a magnet work? How about a hammer then? | | | |
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umtech
Posts:143
| | 07/07/2007 9:13 PM |
Alert | | I had a Seagate 160 External drive and just couldn't make it work. I finally gave it to my dad and for some reason its fine on his system. I'm not a big fan of any other drive out there except for WD, I think those drives rock. They are just so hassle free IMO | | | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/07/2007 10:51 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By rex on 07/07/2007 7:51 PM
Will a magnet work? How about a hammer then?</div>
Nope, you'll need a special program to erase it. | |
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azreplant
Posts:222
| | 07/08/2007 6:55 AM |
Alert | | I've had a number of WD's over the years and have not had one problem with them. I am currently running four serial WD2500KS's in my MacPro (1TB) and they are very quiet. | |
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HiggsBoson
Posts:641
| | 07/08/2007 9:57 AM |
Alert | In my experience there doesn't seem to be much of a difference in quality between any of the major manufactures anymore, for every brand you are going to find people that have had multiple problems and people with no problems. I have an external Maxtor and the main reason I bought this one was it has 100MB ethernet built in (and USB 2.0). Plug this into your wireless router and it makes it easier to share the drive with all your computers (and its faster than USB), also it was on sale at Frys.
Next go around I'll probably get a four drive chassis that you can put your own drives in and has multiple RAID options, something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822134001 | |
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celltech
Posts:0
| | 07/08/2007 2:44 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By rex on 07/07/2007 6:55 PM
Does anyone have a Seagate external hard drive? I'm looking at a 250g as a second backup. I've got a Western Digital 250g now. Any problems with any of these or maybe a Maxtor?</div>
I just bought this model last week from Circuit City. It was $79.99. So far so good. Very fast.
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rex
Posts:295
| | 07/08/2007 4:06 PM |
Alert | Cool celltech. The Seagate just went back up to $89 since last night's $79 price. Still less than the $109 WD. If I put it off long enough they'll all probably go back up.
BTW celltech, thx for that Mother's Day site. She said she wasn't expecting the extra e-mail and it brought a tear to her eye. Plus I've been seeing those commercials on TV with the same time lapse light show thing. You Rock, dude! | | | |
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mallardisme
Posts:590
| | 07/08/2007 4:16 PM |
Alert | I have seen a lot of WDs go bad in the last year or 2.
Question: Would an independant LaCie work for your needs? They are fully contained systems that can live on your network with a straight IP addy. 500GB runs about $200.
We use these a lot around the valley for offsite backups heavily.
LaCie Ethernet Disk mini.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10843 | |
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rex
Posts:295
| | 07/08/2007 4:51 PM |
Alert | | That LaCie is a cool looking unit. The blue light in front reminds me of HAL 9000 from the movie 2001. I'd like to keep it a USB connection. I usually only turn the thing on if I'm backing up or restoring stuff. No one can access it if it's turned off. That would be great though for an in the field backup/access. Maybe for now, I'll do DVD backups for my OCD against losing data. | | | |
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mallardisme
Posts:590
| | 07/08/2007 5:09 PM |
Alert | | It does work as a USB unit as well. It also allows control with shares by usernames. It does run a form of Linux as an OS. | |
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The Local Inspector
Posts:62
| | 07/08/2007 5:31 PM |
Alert | If I only need around 50 to 100 gigs, on an external drive, what would you recommend? I bakcup business data on a few other computers in the home, I would rather place them on an external HD that gets no other use than when I perform the backup.
Any advice? Also, I would like to spend as little as possible, but have a brand that is reliable. If that is possible. | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/08/2007 8:49 PM |
Alert | $109 for 250 GB? Ripoff. $80 for 250? Eh, ok. For $109 you can get an internal Samsung 500 GB hard drive and put it into your own enclosure for about $10-20.
$109 for 250 GB = 43.6 cents per GB
$80 for 250 GB = 32 cents per GB
$129 for 500 GB = 25.8 cents per GB | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/08/2007 8:52 PM |
Alert | Posted By The Local Inspector on 07/08/2007 5:31 PM
If I only need around 50 to 100 gigs, on an external drive, what would you recommend? I bakcup business data on a few other computers in the home, I would rather place them on an external HD that gets no other use than when I perform the backup.
Any advice? Also, I would like to spend as little as possible, but have a brand that is reliable. If that is possible.
I'd pick up a small 160-250 drive from Newegg and an external enclosure. It will undoubtedly be cheaper than any retail prepackaged solution. | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/08/2007 8:53 PM |
Alert | | I wouldn't get the LaCie unless you intend to take advantage of its IP capabilities. | |
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jhall
Posts:1237
| | 07/08/2007 11:09 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By rex on 07/07/2007 6:55 PM
Does anyone have a Seagate external hard drive? I'm looking at a 250g as a second backup. I've got a Western Digital 250g now. Any problems with any of these or maybe a Maxtor?</div>
I recently picked up the 500gb usb 2.0 Seagate from fry's for $139. I would check it out, it was way worth the investment! | |
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umtech
Posts:143
| | 07/09/2007 12:27 PM |
Alert | | I have plenty of WD drives I have used in external storage boxes, however when I tried to use the Seagate it would not work at all. I have found out that unless you get the seagate as an all in one package as an external device they don't work so good. | | | |
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