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12-19-2017, 07:36 PM
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Portable HDD Guidance
I?m looking at two models of 1 tb USB 3.0 portable hard drive. My laptop is 98% full and I deleted tons of stuff.
Interface Transfer Rate 5.0 Gbps (USB 3.0) / 480 Mbps (USB 2.0) Western Digital or 5.0 Gbps (USB 3.0) Toshiba Which is your preference and why?
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12-19-2017, 08:13 PM
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I've had bad luck with Toshiba stuff, so I'd lean towards the WD. What ever drive you get, you should get two, one for backups. 2 is 1 and 1 is none...
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12-19-2017, 08:21 PM
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Don't get a Western Digital. I just got rid of one that was corrupting data and costing me hours of work.
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12-19-2017, 09:20 PM
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No point playing the "which is less likely to fail" game because the odds are about the same.
Buy both, and have two backups... |
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12-20-2017, 07:41 AM
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12-20-2017, 02:37 PM
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12-20-2017, 02:58 PM
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Every hard drive will fail at some point.
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12-20-2017, 03:14 PM
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I have 75 toshiba externals and 16x8TB enclosures with toshiba drives in there. Never had a fail
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12-20-2017, 06:48 PM
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Thanks. They seem to both be hit or miss. I’ll look for more space so I can backup and use as an external HDD. I found one when I moved but have no idea what size or speed it is. Hopefully I’ll find it again when unpacking the last boxes.
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12-20-2017, 06:52 PM
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Why waste money on another hard disk? Buy an SSD drive instead. They won't suffer from a head crash if you drop it, they're 50 times faster, lighter, and use alot less power.
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12-20-2017, 07:41 PM
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If you care about redundancy (and you should). Get yourself a Synology Diskstation and two WD Red drives.
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12-20-2017, 07:50 PM
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I went with 2tb WD and Toshiba with 2-year protection. Dell credit rocks!
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All drives will fail. The question is "when" not "if" |
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12-20-2017, 07:54 PM
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[QUOTE=rowan;22127064
SSDs are overkill for bulk storage. They're not indestructible, either - out of the 11 SSDs I have purchased in the past ~8 years, 6 have failed. A couple lasted less than a year.[/QUOTE] Wow that sucks! I haven't had a single SSD fail in the 5 years I've been buying them. Maybe you had a bad batch?
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 )The problem with SSDs is that they often fail suddenly, and completely. Not even detected by the BIOS. A HDD can also fail suddenly, but it will usually give you hints about pending doom, and may continue to function in a degraded state. |
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