Need external hard disk

[Guest]

Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive, connected via
USB.
Tks.
-Pete

 

[Mike Painter]

Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
connected via USB.
Tks.
-Pete

All drives are about the same. Seagate still has a 5 year warranty.

Kalok is the only brand to stay away from. (Easy to do. They made bad drives
and went belly up at the time that 10Mb was big.)

 

[Guest]

All drives are about the same. Seagate still has a 5 year warranty.

Kalok is the only brand to stay away from. (Easy to do. They made bad
drives and went belly up at the time that 10Mb was big.)
.

I bought a Seagate 300gb yesterday at CompUsa and took it back today. When
backing up, the log contained several pages or read write errors. It was
ridiculous.
Now I'm in the market again.
-Pete

 

[Sparda]

Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi,
etc.
I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
connected via
USB.
Tks.
-Pete

befor your go and buy one, you should find out if you have USB2 or
not, if you dont know then you should find the manual for your
motherborad.

 

[D.Currie]

Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive, connected via
USB.
Tks.
-Pete

Buy an empty USB hard drive case, and then buy the hard drive of your
choice. It may end up costing you a few buck more at the outset, but you
know you can change the drive, swap out different drives, get a bigger drive
later. Overall, you get more use out of it.

Some of those USB external drives aren't meant to be opened, and if you do,
you void the warranty. Or they're built only to fit specific drives -- you
may not have noticed it, but the placement of the IDE cable and power
connector are not identical on all drives. You won't have that problem if
you get one of the empty ones.

 

[Guest]

befor your go and buy one, you should find out if you have USB2 or
not, if you dont know then you should find the manual for your
motherborad.

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Yes, of course I know its USB 2.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

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All drives are about the same. Seagate still has a 5 year warranty.

Kalok is the only brand to stay away from. (Easy to do. They made bad drives
and went belly up at the time that 10Mb was big.)

MiniScribe, who created the world's most expensive artificial barrier
reef when they dumped tons of defective (platter harmonic resonance,
hence "butterfly" test) drives that they claimed to have "sold"?

JTS? Jeez, JTS were way worse than the Kaylok 40M drives, and they
died around the 2G era.

HD market is conservative, and rightly so, it seems; hardly anyone who
hasn't been making HDs for at least 5 years get much market share at
all. Samsung may or may not be the exception, and I wouldn't use them
anyway... right now i'm using Seagate.

I'm more worried about your HD housing and handling than HD brand or
model. The external life is tough, and seems prone to early death.

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[Michael W. Ryder]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:36:02 GMT, "Mike Painter"



MiniScribe, who created the world's most expensive artificial barrier
reef when they dumped tons of defective (platter harmonic resonance,
hence "butterfly" test) drives that they claimed to have "sold"?

JTS? Jeez, JTS were way worse than the Kaylok 40M drives, and they
died around the 2G era.

HD market is conservative, and rightly so, it seems; hardly anyone who
hasn't been making HDs for at least 5 years get much market share at
all. Samsung may or may not be the exception, and I wouldn't use them
anyway... right now i'm using Seagate.

Samsung has been making hard drives since at least 1997, I have a 2 GB
drive of theirs in my office.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:30:16 GMT, "Michael W. Ryder"

Samsung has been making hard drives since at least 1997, I have a 2 GB
drive of theirs in my office.

Thanks, I was wondering about that... and it makes my point, in a way;
we (or should I say, "I", and say "can I get a witness?") still think
of them as newcomers to the scene <g>

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[Andy]

Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive, connected via
USB.
Tks.
-Pete

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