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| 09-03-20 12:19pm - 1571 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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elephant (0)
Active User  Posts: 585 Registered: Jan 11, '07 |
Anyone here have any hard drive recommendations Hi folks Thinking of getting one of these higher terabyte drives say 6TB, 8TB or 10TB but reading reviews these day of the two big manufacturers WD and Seagate theres so much say not great things, just curious of what drives people here think are the most reliable, internal or external drives and what capacity do you think has the longest life. What do you usually buy and rely on. Cheers Elephant "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand." WILLIAM CONGREVE Edited by Staff on Sep 09, 2020, 02:42pm | |
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| 09-03-20 02:07pm - 1571 days | #2 | |
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TheCollector (0)
Active User  Posts: 17 Registered: Nov 14, '19 Location: Texas |
I've used both Western Digital and Seagate over the years and have never had a problem with either. I currently use 3 - 8TB Seagate Drives and 1 - 4TB WD. No real reason for one over the other. Both are easy to set up and use - just drag and drop your files. Hope this helps. Good luck. The Collector 90% of porn is crap - but then 90% of ANYTHING is crap. (With apologies to Theodore Sturgeon) | |
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| 09-03-20 02:54pm - 1571 days | #3 | |
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tangub (0)
Active User  Posts: 132 Registered: Feb 03, '10 Location: UK |
My collection spans 2 x 3TB and 2 x 4TB drives and the same again for back up. All 8 are WD Elements external drives, the oldest ones probably getting on for 10 years old now and I've never had one fail on me yet so I won't buy anything else. | |
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| 09-03-20 04:17pm - 1571 days | #4 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I have both a Seagate and Western Digital and enjoy both HD but my most recent WD hard drive has one significant problem in that I had to replace my computer and I can no longer access the content on WD HD because it's asking for a password that I do not have because it was pre-set on my previous computer who died. Something to consider. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-03-20 05:48pm - 1570 days | #5 | |
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exotics4me (0)
Active User  Posts: 664 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: USA |
I switched to USB powered drives several years ago and have four but only use 2 for porn. They are both Western Digital My Passport 3.0 USB hard drives @ 4TB each. The other two I have are Western Digital Elements 3.0 USB hard drive @ 2TB and a Toshiba Canvio 3.0 USB hard drive @ 4TB. The only complaint I have about any of those is the Toshiba has a bright blue light on the top. When you are downloading or watching something from it the light flashes. In a semi-dark room it lights the whole room up with each flash. It's an easy fix with a piece of dark tape but I think that also shows how few problems I have had with these drives. I think Amazon has the 5TB version of the My Passport for around $100. My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. - Chuck Palahniuk | |
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| 09-03-20 06:50pm - 1570 days | #6 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
I bought an external Seagate HDD, 4TB, from Costco a few months ago. Low price, less than $100. When I copied files for backup from my Lenovo Thinkpad laptop, the external HDD would fail to copy all the files. It would miss or drop a lot of files. This happened every time I tried to copy some large folders. So I returned the Seagate HDD to Costco for a refund. That was the only new external HDD I ever had problems with. Most hard drives I've used (Seagate, Western Digital), gave me years of service without problems. But you always read that you're supposed to make back-up copies of your important files, because any hard drive can fail. And I guess that applies to SSD as well. So, as a precaution, if you buy a HDD or SSD, copy some large folders, and see: -Do the copied folders match the original folders; -How long does the copy process take. | |
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| 09-05-20 05:15am - 1569 days | #7 | |
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elephant (0)
Active User Posts: 585 Registered: Jan 11, '07 |
Thanks guys. Looks as its Western Digital Elements 8TB I'm going to opt for, I'll maybe wait for black friday to get a deal for it and hopefully get most of my collection on just one drive then use my 4TB drive for fav backup, which is Seagate but highly annoying drive that often doesn't connect up if the cable isn't in a certain position, I've tried replacing for a better cable but still does it now and again. "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand." WILLIAM CONGREVE | |
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| 09-05-20 05:17am - 1569 days | #8 | |
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elephant (0)
Active User Posts: 585 Registered: Jan 11, '07 |
That doesn't sound good. Is there no way of resetting it, have you contacted WD, surely loads of people replace PC so should be some sort of work around this. "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand." WILLIAM CONGREVE | |
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| 09-05-20 11:12am - 1569 days | #9 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I have yet to contact WD but it's on my list to do that because if they tell me that it's not possible then i will have lost nearly 2 TB of content of which at least half is porn. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-05-20 05:48pm - 1568 days | #10 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
pat: I asked Google about forgetting a password for a HDD. Here is what Google suggested: Ultimate Boot CD is completely free for the download, or could be obtained for a small fee. If you had somehow paid a ridiculous amount of money for it, you have most likely been fleeced. Googled: if you forgot the password for a hard disk drive, is there a way to read the files anyway without a password How to unlock hard drive forgot password? Download Ultimate Boot CD. Burn it into a Disc and boot it up. ( ... On main menu, choose “HDD” > “Diagnostic” > “MHDD v4.6” You will see a list of harddisk, select a harddisk you want to unlock. Type “unlock” and reply “1” for master password. Enter the master password. Worth trying, since it's basically a free program. Let us know if the program works. And maybe send us copies of the best photos/videos you have unlocked, so we can judge if they are worth keeping.   Edited on Sep 05, 2020, 05:52pm | |
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| 09-14-20 06:20pm - 1559 days | #11 | |
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Mark123 (0)
Active User Posts: 9 Registered: May 04, '10 Location: United States |
I have used WDs in the past but just got a Generrica. I think I made a mistake because I copied over a bunch of MP4s. Some copied OK but others had errors. as a followup, after speaking with tech help apparently I tried to copy over too many items at one time and that corrupted some of the copies. Edited on Sep 14, 2020, 07:37pm | |
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| 09-15-20 02:36am - 1559 days | #12 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
[QUOTE=Mark123] as a followup, after speaking with tech help apparently I tried to copy over too many items at one time and that corrupted some of the copies. [/QUOTE I would return the Generrica drive. To me, it doesn't make sense to have a drive that corrupts files if you try to copy too many files at the same time. I'm not tech savvy, but if a drive doesn't allow copies of large files, it seems to be defective. And that's why I returned a new Seagate HDD, because it dropped files I tried to copy. | |
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| 09-15-20 08:15am - 1559 days | #13 | |
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pinkerton (0)
Active User  Posts: 151 Registered: Jan 13, '07 Location: UK |
Most external 3.5" drives I've come across are pretty crappy as far as the connectors and case are concerned. The WD and Seagate drives I've ordered in the past have had flimsy and small power and USB connectors that I reckon wouldn't withstand much plugging in and unplugging. And if the cables or interface fail, getting the actual bare drive out of the case if more likely to result in you breaking the case and possibly damaging the drive inside. If you're handy with a screwdriver I'd recommend buying a bare 2.5" or (better) 3.5" drive along with an external drive enclosure such as one from Orico (on Amazon website) and put the drive into the enclosure yourself. Then you'll have a better quality external disk case with robust power connectors and a USB3-A-B lead of decent length rather than the very short dual micro-USB you'll get otherwise. | |
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| 10-06-20 05:27am - 1538 days | #14 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
I'm with you LKLK. This sounds fishy. On a semi-related note, I was having trouble with an older external drive and someone recommended some freeware called Crystal Disk. It was really easy to use. The odd thing was that it found that the drive was okay though I replaced it anyway. I saved the old drive and may use it for unimportant storage at some point. But I also ran Crystal Disk on my other drives and was surprised to see that several of them aren't all that healthy. Needless to say, I've been more careful about backing those up. If you want more information let me know. | |
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| 10-12-20 02:38am - 1532 days | #15 | |
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pinkerton (0)
Active User Posts: 151 Registered: Jan 13, '07 Location: UK |
I can recommend Disk Checkup from PassMark, it's free for personal use. | |
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| 10-19-20 01:54am - 1525 days | #16 | |
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Divinx (0)
Active User Posts: 45 Registered: Dec 29, '07 |
Good recommendation. | |
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| 10-19-20 01:56am - 1525 days | #17 | |
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Divinx (0)
Active User Posts: 45 Registered: Dec 29, '07 |
Good recommendation. | |
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| 10-19-20 01:56am - 1525 days | #18 | |
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Divinx (0)
Active User Posts: 45 Registered: Dec 29, '07 |
Good recommendation. | |
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| 10-19-20 02:01am - 1525 days | #19 | |
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Divinx (0)
Active User Posts: 45 Registered: Dec 29, '07 |
I bought 8 TB disks from Intenso because of the many problems with smaller ones, but there's a con: they quickly stop spinning, until they are required again, and then it takes a lot of time before they respond. Annoying. | |
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| 12-19-20 03:46pm - 1463 days | #20 | |
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Otrivine (0)
Active User Posts: 54 Registered: Aug 28, '16 |
Just my two cents... As IT'er, over the years, I used a number of brands and their series for internal drives (Seagate, WD, Samsung, IBM). TBH I had the least issues with WD drives. For external USB drives I always used and still use WD Elements or WD MyBook for the moment. My current desktop PC has two SSD's on the motherboard. The lowest capacity only contains Windows 10 Pro and drivers. The SSD with the biggest capacity contains all my software. All my data I save on several external 3.5" USB drives. From my experience I can tell you in all honesty that the average external hard drive lifespan is about 3 to 5 years, provided that no physical damage occurs. Some of my drives lived longer but it isn't a bad idea to replace drives after a few years and copy the data from the old to the new drives. I'm currently saving money to buy myself in time a NAS from Synology and I will insert WD Red HDD's as they are the best WD drives for NAS. | |
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