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I have a Verbatim 500GB drive. $70 at Office Depot several months ago. I love it.
All of Verbatim's portable drives have a 7 year warranty, and this one came with a rubberized case already on it.
Doesn't protect your data, only that if it quits working, they will repair/replace, but not your data.
My last was a Buffalo 2GB for $109 (Amazon), connected to my router for easy backup/retrieval from any computer on my network. Everything stored on it is also stored on a separate spindle of disk on my server.
I have had good luck with LaCie hard drives (Firewire/USB), but they seem to be more expensive than most. Lately I have been using external Western Digital (WD) USB drives, and haven't had a single problem.
As I've said I don't know how many times, there is no best one, there is no reliable one. No matter what you get it WILL fail, probably without any warning at all, and long before you think it should have.
Of course everything will eventually fail. Everything has a beginning and a end. If you don't know the answer to my question, then that's okay. No worries dude.
If that was the case, then I don't think there would be a purpose of me starting this thread.
....what? lol
Now you're trolling....lol
It is in fact the case, there are very few hard drive manufacturers, the only difference in external drives are the enclosures, they all have only a limited choice as to what brand of drive to put in them, Seagate, WD, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, may have missed one or two.
He's not trolling at all, you are just not informed. Take Lacie for example, they do not make hard drives, they make enclosures, inside that enclosure is one of the brands of hard drives I listed, I have noticed they seem to be partial to Hitachi.
Of course everything will eventually fail. Everything has a beginning and a end. If you don't know the answer to my question, then that's okay. No worries dude.
I gave you the answer, no brand is any more reliable than the other, you just seem to think no one here knows what they're talking about, I know the type, have to deal with them all the time.
Oh yeah, forgot about that, I think the Samsung name will remain, just owned by Seagate, and Toshiba isn't all that big in the market, they're mostly OEM I think.
What interfaces does it support USB, FireWire, eSATA, USB 3.0
What interfaces do I have to connect it to.
How much storage does it provide?
How much does it cost?
I would add:
How quiet is it? Mine sits next to my dead quiet iMac in my quiet home office. Lac of noise is a big deal for me.
Does it look OK? I am willing to pay more for a prettier one.
I prefer drives from G-Technology for their quiet operation.
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