So my two hard drives (two internal WD drives, one 80gigs, the other 120) simply won't do anymore.
I'm one of those guys who never delete anything. Add the fact that I backup everything I own (from documents to CDs to DVDs) on the PC, and you can see how I run out of space, fast.
Which is why I'm looking to buy an external hard drive.
I don't want to end up with a piece of noisy crap, so I'm asking for advice.
I want something reliable, durable, quiet, around 1 or 2TB (depends on pricing) and USB2 compatible.
Any advice, or even advice on where to get advice, would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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I am pretty happy to it. I have my main laptop hard drive partitioned all to hell, so I install my games to the external, and I have been playing Mass Effect off of it on high settings with little to no lag. It will wind itself down (if it is quiet you are worried about.)
I am not sure about the Time Machine thing. My mac OS X partition offered to use it for time machine but I did not really want to use it for that, so I opted out.
They sell them in 1TB iterations now, I saw one in Best Buy last time I was there. It's pretty nice, as long as you don't mess up the formatting like I did. >.>
also I think it was $200 for the 1TB.
The disks themselves are made by Samsung, Lacie is just a vendor/product designer.
You can get a 1TB Lacie refurbished for 150 dollars these days.
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fwiw my MyBook seems to work perfectly with Ubuntu, at least in Feisty/Gutsy.
I kind of like buying a harddrive on its own and throwing it into an enclosure. Vantec makes some nice, well-priced enclosures that I'm a big fan of. They too looks more and more bad ass as you stack them.
If you do go with a regular external, I second LaCie. I've got one that's be running flawlessly for about 5 years, the other nice thing about LaCie is it's easier to find them with firewire, which is noticeably faster than USB 2 in real-world use, especially if you transfer large files or large amounts of data at a time.
after a horrible experience with seagate freeagent pro eSATA issues, I just yesterday bought an external dockign station and a WD6400AAKS
I also tried it on my Powerbook which was able to connect fine when I first got the drive, but now it doesn't show up at all.
I'm thinking I'll stay away from Western Digital for a good while. For all I know I might be missing something, but being unable to access all my backups on a fairly new, hardly used drive doesn't strike me as being reliable.
What I'm looking at now is a hard drive docking station I found on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153066
It looks like you can just take an internal SATA drive, plug it into the top, power up the station, and connect it to your computer using a usb cable.
I'm thinking of buying a 750GB Seagate drive to go with it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148134
did you try troubleshooting it at all, or did you just plug it in, say "oh, I can't see the drive" and throw it out? the drive not showing up in my computer could be any number of things. drive letter conflict, bad connection, dead usb port.
Western digital drives are no better/worse than other brands. the HDD failure rate I've personally seen over the past 5 years has been about equal between WD, Seagate/Maxtor, and the other smaller HDD manufacturers.
I've checked for any information I can find about the drive and haven't really found any solutions for my problem yet. I've seen some stuff where others have had similar problems, but didn't really find any solution yet.
As I said, I've tried it on both my XP desktop computer and my Powerbook. I've tried it using both a firewire connection and USB (switching between different ports as well).
Since I first bought the drive there were occasions where the drive didn't seem to connect until I tried reconnecting / powering it on / off multiple times. It used to connect instantly to my Powerbook, but it's stopped working there as well.
It's pretty apparent it's an issue with the drive.
I got one of those timy Wd drives too for the PS3, and it's been working fine. Seems to get a little warm, though.
For high capacity, LACIE are percieved as better than others, I've had no problems with mine.