external hd

what is best brand in 1-2 TB range

right now i have a western digital my book 500gb but i kind of hate it cuz its always whirring and clicking when i'm playing music off it. need something that reads/writes quietly

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11062

IT'S GOT A BLUE LED

http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/2001_monolith.jpg

i was thinking of going with lacie. the small i have at work seems pretty good

Corrected:

http://i35.tinypic.com/xauvdk.jpg

ha

i'm jumping up from a pair of 500s to a 1tb too and had been eyeing this one
http://www.provantage.com/seagate-st310005fda2e1-rk~7SEGR03V.htm
Seagate
FreeAgent Desk 1TB USB 2.0 7200 RPM 32MB 3.5 inch

it seemed like it got good reviews but maybe i'll check out the la cie

http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/2001monolith.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-301201U-Firewire800-Firewire400-External/dp/B000UPHZ2Q/ref=dp_cp_ob_e_title_1

that seagate is cheap

just bought the 1 gig lacie. looks F ing beautiful

from amazon?

A friend who works at a data recovery place swears by WD, but says that anything but Seagate is fine.

Don't get LaCies, man. ALL my LaCies crashed and burned after a few years.
Data recovery dudes recommended Glyphs.

i had only one lacie but it, too, crashed.

the wd mybook looks good, five years warranty and all.

swears by WD, but says that anything but Seagate is fine.

my experience says the opposite lol

i would they're probably all as bad as each other, unless someone has some actual data to hand

although i have never heard anyone complain about glyphs

glyphs are $$$$$$

1. Disks die.
2. Only rarely has one particular brand/model of disk been successfully identified as pathologically defective. (e.g., the IBM Deskstar 75G was notorious.) You rolls you the dice when you uses a disk. Choose according to factors like noise, heat, speed, appearance, etc., not reliability.
3. See 1. Plan accordingly.

i bought this but ended up returning it. it made weird noises and when i was packing it back in the box i could hear a small loose piece jangling around inside. nice. it was also hueg and heavy. fuck that.

found this simpletech at best buy. small, lightweight and very quiet. i'll probably get a 2nd one at some point

Someone needs to animate the floor of that room from 2001 so that it looks like the dance floor on "2001 Odyssey" night from "Saturday Night Fever"

It seems weird, every 1.5TB external, regardless of brand, seems to be badly reviewed by consumers at sites like newegg and amazon. Maybe the tech for them just is just too early and cheap right now. I'm also probably going to pick up a quad interface/firewire external terabyte drive later this year, and have been shopping for a while.

So my iMac internal HD melted down (ironically, I am posting using the Boot Camp partition which was very small and hence not as affected by the hardware fuxors as of yet) and deeply regretting not having bought an external HD earlier, which I guess I will do... now. eman, how did that drive work out?

I'm looking get a Firewire 400/800 1tb. Kind of tempted to get this one by WD for http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=74&threadid=6664050 but maybe I shouldn't cheap out on this? Would it really make a huge difference in quality to get a different model for $200-ish? My original plan was to get an OWC enclosure and a decent internal drive, but I don't have as much time right now to go shopping, though together those would cost about $180.

I don't know though, whatever money is left is gonna go to the Apple Store in a couple days... I'm way too afraid to open this thing myself, and I might be forced to replace/upgrade the internal anyway.

I'm stupid, link should be:

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-FireWire-External-WDH1Q10000N/dp/B000VZCEU8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1238373868&sr=8-1

the simpletech 1TB i got worked out great. i think you're right about the 1.5's not being quite there yet. only a few bux more than the western digital :B (see my first post about the issues with the wd mybook). i also made sure to get the firewire 400/800

oops, should read:

the simpletech 1TB i got worked out great. only a few bux more than the western digital :B (see my first post about the issues with the wd mybook). i also made sure to get the firewire 400/800. i think you're right about the 1.5's not being quite there yet.

eman, does your 1TB have a separate power supply, or is it FW-powered?

i have a macbook from 2006 (i replaced the hd in 2007 because it died) and i need an external hd. every day i think about how stupid i am just having one internal hd, especially since i have experienced that catastrophe already. what is a quality affordable 1 TB hard drive in 2010?

G-Drive.

why so much variation in price between brands? also learning customer reviews are useless; everyone is unhappy with everything. i just wanna buy something.

There are NO good hard drives, but essentially you get what you pay for. I have 6 drives - 4 of them are G-Drives and three of those are the only drives that have never failed.

Buy a G-Drive if you want an external HD

thanks adam, i think i'll get a g-drive

alternatively you could get two Western Digital HDs for almost the same price, if you're paranoid enough to do a double backup

I have one of those and it pretty much stopped being reliable after the first fortnight.

ok it's plugged into my computer and i literally just lolled looking at it in finder. "931.02 GB available." it's hilarious!

looks even more impressive in bytes

So far pleased with my Seagate 1TB GoFlex Desk.

USB3 option is nice.

i got a samsung story the other day and it's working out just fine some deal on newegg 1Tb for $90 it also does usb 3 which is mad faster than 2

eman, does your 1TB have a separate power supply, or is it FW-powered?

― death from abroad (lukas), Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:04 AM

separate (1 yr later)

my experience says the opposite lol

i think i had a seagate die on me a couple of weeks after this

Those Big Box Chain Store hard drives suck, don't they? I am embarrassed to own one.

OWC has external drives that are sort of bulky and ugly, but do not suck

macsales.com

OWC has external drives that are sort of bulky and ugly, but do not suck

Just bought another 2TB from them yesterday. I have several and they most definitely do not suck.