Cold_void344 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Hey everyoneI am currently on the look for a Portable External Hard-Drive (1TB) and was wonderng if anyone had any tips, or if you have found a good deal online etc.My main concern is brand, I know to stay away from western digital (after reading a LOT of bad reviews about them), but is their any over brands to stay away from or any brand that you would recommend?I know that since the floods the prices have gone up, but honestly I am willing to pay the extra $ since I actually need one for storing all the anime I am downloading since my friends external where we put all our anime on is nearly full.Thoughts everyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kashem2 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Seagate Go Flex is good. i got 2 of them. one 1TB another 1.5TB. they were about 150-200 dollar price range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Lol I find it funny that you say WD is a bad brand, in my experiences WD is the best brand I ever used. Never had issues with it or even a failure. The prices are somewhat going down, so don't worry too much about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 No no no. This thread is full of fail.Stay away from anything from SeaFail (SeaGate).Be sure to get Western Digital. It's the best brand you can get for external drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kashem2 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 No no no. This thread is full of fail.Stay away from anything from SeaFail (SeaGate).Be sure to get Western Digital. It's the best brand you can get for external drives.whats wrong with seagate? ive had the drive for years with no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 whats wrong with seagate? ive had the drive for years with no problems.They're are POS and often DOA. Every single SeaGate I've had has made terrible clicking noises and eventually died. I'm not the only one who has said this either. Every single thread posted on the forum about hard-drives has people commenting about how fail Seagate is and everyone recommends Western Digital for a reason. I've never had a single Western Digital mess up within the last 11 years. While I've had at least 4 Seagates fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kashem2 Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 They're are POS and often DOA. Every single SeaGate I've had has made terrible clicking noises and eventually died. I'm not the only one who has said this either. Every single thread posted on the forum about hard-drives has people commenting about how fail Seagate is and everyone recommends Western Digital for a reason. I've never had a single Western Digital mess up within the last 11 years. While I've had at least 4 Seagates fail.oh wow guess ive dodged a bullet. or still dodging. i hope mine dont fail. 3/5 are seagate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmingllama Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Really, just wait for something to go on sale. Right now, everything is super bloated for prices, but there are doorbreaker sales or holiday ones that make the drives more cost effective. I got a 1.5TB just a couple weeks ago for $80, just because I was willing to sit outside a store for 20 odd minutes before it opened. So look at them magazines and flyers for deals! But yeah, western digital is the best from what Ive seen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmitler Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 I've been using a Toshiba 500GB since early November. I'm very satisfied with it so far, although I do need to upgrade to a terabyte drive soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold_void344 Posted February 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 So WD is a good brand? excellent!I have found a $99 WD 1TB portable external Hard Drive from officeworks, should i get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 So WD is a good brand? excellent!I have found a $99 WD 1TB portable external Hard Drive from officeworks, should i get it?Well I got both of my 2TB WD drives at only $79 within a year apart of each other. I couldn't bring myself to spend an extra $20 to get half the size, but maybe if you're desperate enough to get one.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136471 <-- This is my favorite external. Like I said though, I got two of them for only $79 each so as you can see the price has skyrocketed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 No no no. This thread is full of fail.Stay away from anything from SeaFail (SeaGate).Be sure to get Western Digital. It's the best brand you can get for external drives.Wow, Koby, thanks for the warning!I bought a WD 2TB last January for $112.50.But it got full through the year, so now Im waiting for the prices to come back down.I almost bought a 3TB seagate for $225 as it's by FAR the cheapest harddrive available here (it's cheaper than the WD 1TB is now), but didnt cause the supplier has bad rep. Was gonna wait for a new supplier to show up before buying. so Thanks! =D =DSo WD is reliable. It's also quiet and smart (tough I think all externals turn themselves on and off nowaday). It's just rather slow compared to my older externals. Also, the software that comes with it likes using a lotta RAM. So for a 1gig ram computer like mine, that's a bad thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Also, the software that comes with it likes using a lotta RAM. So for a 1gig ram computer like mine, that's a bad thing.What software? o.O If it had anything on it when you got it, just reformat the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmingllama Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 The best deal I have seen so far in this time is $80 for a 1.5TB drive. So really it just takes a little bit of looking. Also, personally I wouldnt reccomend getting anything bigger than a 2TB, they seem to break down faster or just dont work at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geard Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Things worth noting about external HDDs, and HDDs in general is because they have moving parts the DoA rate is really high. Don't let a DoA spoil your opinion on a brand, the rate is far higher than any other computer component. I know that the last time I bought an HDD the rate was over 1%. SeaGate are okay drives, but they're definitely cheaper than Western Digital. I really like the Western Digital network drives because of them being user serviceable, so even if they die you just buy another internal drive and pop it in the external casing. Also the write rate over ethernet is a lot higher than the write rate from USB 2.0 which most drives are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loveberri Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Before buying my recent one like 3 weeks ago i read countless reviews about DOA and short life HDs. I bought a 3.5" external WD 2TB and so far so good. But after so many horror stories it has me worried. When I have the money i will get another 2tb one just to mirror my current one because reaquiring my entire video collection a 3rd or 4th time will have me going insane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
†An IP BreAKDoWN Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Before buying my recent one like 3 weeks ago i read countless reviews about DOA and short life HDs. I bought a 3.5" external WD 2TB and so far so good. But after so many horror stories it has me worried. When I have the money i will get another 2tb one just to mirror my current one because reaquiring my entire video collection a 3rd or 4th time will have me going insaneHDD go out, thats just there nature, so don't let horror stories scare you. And if you are getting into mirroring then I'd get into a RAID 1 configuration as that mirrors automatically. However that's internal only, but hey throw in two caviar blacks you should be ok for 5 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolockit Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 I have a WD passport 1TB and a WD uhh forgot it's the HUEG one, both are doing alright. Been over a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike2319 Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 I'm glad i drop by this thread.. since I'm also planning on getting another HDD probably a 2TB. since my 1TB is gonna run out of space soon (260GB Left) been 1 year now thanks God my 1TB HDD is still running well.. lol don't have any problems with it sincei only used it for storing my anime files and movies etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skate.101 Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 just wondering which one is better a 1.5TB which is just a plug and play or a 2TB which requires an external power supply ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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