External Harddrive

I had a WD harddrive and it recently crashed -_- what would be the best external to get? I need something thats strong and reliable . Thanks in advanced

 

not because that one western digital hard drive crashed, means that brand is not good, i personally think its the best brand, i been building computers since 2005, ive always replaced faulty hard drives, with western digitals, for my external hard drive i use to dj with , i just bought a new wd passport that supports usb 3.0 also, so its very fast & small as hell lol, i had a bigger one that needed to be plugged into an outlet to be powered so im going to sell that, but overall in my opinion, western digital is the way to go, never failed me yet. take good care of your stuff lol.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=430
^^ thats the one i use

 

word lol , im not hatin on seagate, their also a great brand, never had troubles with them, im just used to wd and never experience problems so far, knock on wood lmao, & yeah thats true, just like computers are hp but none of the parts inside is made by hp rofl just the case, so imagine what cud be under a hard drive enclosure.

 

WD and Seagate are supposed to be the best in the market right now.

 

I'd get a seagate barracuda internal and buy a case for it. w.e you do, stay away from hitachi.

 

is it me or does goflex constantly making noise sometimes?

i got one to, almost new, and the noise make me think its about to crash

 

I agree with Mark. I've had a Western Digital for about 3+ years and it stills works for me.

 

Thanks for the input guys. I decided to give Seagate a try. I got a 1 tb goflex for 100 +tax .

 

I've got a WESTERN DIGITAL & MAXTOR BASICS and both are working 100% If you take care of your external hard drive and do not let any damage acure to it by not accidently dropping it on the floor it will not cause you problems by a fault or it crashing for any apparent reason! I have had my maxtor for MONTHS!! and it works the lick!!

 

I have the Seagate Go Flex and a Lacie Hard drive. Both have been working great. Had a couple WD and both crashed on. If you can afford the Lacie go with it. Second best in my opinion is the Seagate Go Flex.

 

seagate is one of the best out there i think

 

bro you need to go with Western Digital. I've had my hdd knocked off a table by a drunk man, i've dropped my hdd over probably 6 times, and the clips holding the case together broke, so you can see clear inside the hdd. Everytime i drop my hdd i get so nervous bc i have too much music to lose, if i do i think id die. Western Digital hdd's in my experience are built like tanks. I have the Western Digital 1Tb mybook elite.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elite-Desktop-External/dp/B002JSS2NS

edit*- btw my hdd still works perfectly

 

i think u should stop dropping it.

 

yeah....i learned after the last time.

 

yew could get a western digital or a seagate .. they are the best harddrives out on the market and they build them now so they are reduced to shock and dropping .. i got a 1tb harddrive from WD and it still hasnt been fulled yet ... they are long lasting and durable.

 

Western Digital With firewire can't go wrong with that

 

You guys know you can retrieve the data from the hard drive ?

Im into that SSD business, hope soon its going to replace these SATA drives. I like the idea of more up-time on a drive and a significantly lower crash rate.

You know personally I would believe that having a hard drive as a DJ would be really bad considering your drive is electromagnetic, and you the dj's are constantly around electromagnetic objects w/ constant bass moving the air. Maybe the best thing to get is something with a metallic casing just to keep the negative charges and the positive charges away, or separate from the exterior to the interior of the drive. Also making sure your drive doesn't have any static on the drive housing, would be a good idea to. Like just keep it grounded with a metallic cable to some bolt or something; at the same time put it in a place where the air around it cannot affect it. All that advice, and of course don't drop the drive or include any direct impact to the drive itself.
With the current drives we have nowadays its almost impossible to find a drive that will not crash for sure, considering many different factors leaking into deeper areas than exposed above.
btw always back up, and always have a backup drive, or TWO because you never know if the one you backed up onto crashes.