External HD recs?
Jonny_Paycheck
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Hai guyz, so the time has come to replace/upgrade my two externals - ones an old WD used strictly for time machine, the other a slightly less old Lacie that holds my mp3 library and various other music projects/files.
Ive heard horror stories about damn near every brand/make but I thought maybe there was some consensus on best/worst in 2013
Ive heard horror stories about damn near every brand/make but I thought maybe there was some consensus on best/worst in 2013
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and what connex u need
size 2
I also bought their network drive version, MyBook Live I think it's was called. It was painfully slow. In theory it seemed a good idea, so all my music, movies etc would be available to any device on the network, only in practice it completely sucked. I would recommend you don't waste your time and money on that one.
If you want to store anything digitally that you couldn't bare loosing maybe pay the extra cash and buy a solid state drive, or use cloud storage. But if it's just your mp3s you're worried about loosing maybe just buy a small portable drive, they're pretty cheap these days, and just use that as a back up.
I guess it's like cars, no brand is without it's downsides...
Ideally 750GB to 1TB
Looking to spend not a huge amount
Prolly have to be USB, would like a f/w option doe
I work mostly with G-Raid and Lacie drives, had problems with Glyph in the past but I've also seen Lacie drives crap out. Difference was the Lacie ones tended to crap out right out of the box.
Can't imagine you need anything fancy for the back-up/time machine one. For music I would think a 5400rpm drive would be fast enough OR you could get a solid state HD - those are faster and way sturdier but can get expensive if you're looking at something like 1TB of storage. Also, with the exception of some Lacie ones these brands usually require an external power source. If you're looking for something that travels easily there's the Lacie rugged drives, just don't be fooled by the name - they're not as rugged as they look.
For home use I got tired of trying to keep up my backup of my archive and use a raid-1 (mirrored drives) for everything so I don't have to think about it anymore. I have this but after having to replace a drive and almost losing all my data because of the idiotic way it's designed I don't recommend it,
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/usb/raid_1/Gmax
I've been wanting to get one of these instead because I could replace a drive while stoned, drunk and naked and not fuck anything up which is my primary design consideration.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10598