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| 10-11-10 07:04am - 5186 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
External hard drive choices. Amazon is currently offering a Seagate Expansion 2.0 TB External Hard Drive for $112. That sounds dirt cheap. Any opinions on whether the Seagate external hard drive is a good value? Anybody owns this model, or thinks a different model/manufacturer would be better? I've read some terrible reviews on the Seagate Expansion 2.0 TB external hard drive, saying the drive is not reliable, will fail in a short period of time, makes a lot of noise, etc. So I guess, in spite of the low price, it's better to avoid this drive? What model/manufacturer and price sounds good or reasonable or recommended? | |
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| 10-11-10 07:21am - 5186 days | #2 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
While you're waiting for a reply, you may want to check out the thread from last month on this subject ... More external HD? Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 10-11-10 07:39am - 5186 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Thanks, for the tip, Khan. I knew I had read a thread or something on this subject a short while ago, but couldn't find it, so I started this one. The other thread didn't have any simple conclusion as to best manufacturer or model. Everyone has different experiences, different opinion. But I won't be buying the Seagate 2 TB model, because the poor reviews I read have scared me away, in spite of the low price of $112, and being sold by Amazon, which I have found to be a very reputable seller. Seagate used to be one of the top hard drive makers. But I guess that poor models are something that happen every once in a while. | |
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| 10-11-10 08:09am - 5186 days | #4 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
I think you'll find that's the norm with whatever you're talking about. As grandpa used to say, "If everyone liked the same thing, they'd just make vanilla ice cream." I recently bought a Western Digital 2TB external but haven't used it enough to form much of an opinion. I did notice it tries to be too smart for its own good (my opinion) but that has nothing to do with the drive's reliability. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 10-11-10 01:50pm - 5186 days | #5 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I read only recently, darned if I know where, (maybe in this forum?) that 2TB externals in general are not that reliable yet and the author of the article suggested sticking with the 1TB or 1.5TB drives for now. | |
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| 10-11-10 02:00pm - 5186 days | #6 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Raging Buddist suggested this recently in the More external HD? thread. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-11-10 02:02pm - 5186 days | #7 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
Just a guess but it could have been the post by RagingBuddhist (#5) in the above mentioned thread. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 10-11-10 02:12pm - 5186 days | #8 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
External (and internal) hard drive experience seems to be all anecdotal and personal. I have yet to read any comprehensive reviews that go in depth into why certain drives may fail sooner, are less reliable, or whether any of this can even be predicted that well. Most reviews seem to be very specific and short term, like a Popular Mechanics one a few years ago where they dropped and submerged a bunch of travel hard drives to see which ones were the most robust. Interesting review but there was no telling how long any of those drives would actually last. To complicate matters I don't think all these manufacturers actually make the drives themselves--they assemble the whole thing but the drive is made by another company. Two different brand's models could in fact have the same internal drive and may end up being equally reliable, but it's hard to determine this without long term testing. If certain models, like the Seagate one you mentioned, have a fairly bad reputation then you might want to stay away and do more research but remember most owners might not even be bothering to review and you're only getting viewpoints of drives that turned out to be lemons. Still there are probably better ones out there with lots of praise. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-11-10 02:24pm - 5186 days | #9 | |
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elephant (0)
Active User  Posts: 585 Registered: Jan 11, '07 |
I did lots of research for both external and internals and the best 2 I bought on each and have had no problems and both are great. External Samsung Story 1.5TB I think 2.0tb externals sounded unreliable so opted for one of these. And a Samsung F3 EcoGreen 2TB for the internal, quiet as a mouse and works really fast from what I use it for which is just storage separate from my boot disk "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand." WILLIAM CONGREVE | |
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| 10-11-10 06:24pm - 5186 days | #10 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Thanks turboshaft and Khan .. that was exactly the article I was thinking about! | |
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| 10-11-10 10:38pm - 5185 days | #11 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Ik2fireone .....I bought a Free-Agent 1.5 TB Seagate at Costco (A National membership shopper Warehouse.) I paid about the same price you're being offered for your slightly higher-storage model. Mine runs the gamut with added features, many of which I don't use or simply don't know how to use. I know there's a Seagate Manager, Backup, Sync, Encryption tools...but those lay idle because I just use it for storage. It's given me no trouble, completely noise-less and , so far, maintenence free. For a comparison, you could go onto Costco.com and wade into their computer electronics...they may have something that'll shed some light on your dilemma. | |
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| 10-11-10 10:59pm - 5185 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Thanks for the tip, graymane1777. I used to be a member of Costco, but have not been for several years now. The last external hard drive I bought was an Iomega model. That came with a bunch of extra software, that I tried using at first, and then stopped. There was anti-virus protection, automated backup, and some other stuff. The Iomega hard drive is still working fine, I just don't use the extra software that came with it. I don't really have any major problem. I just saw a large-capacity hard drive at a cheap price from Amazon, thought it might be a great deal until I read some of the reviews stating that model from Seagate had poor reliability. Seagate is a major hard drive maker, probably the world's biggest. But every so often there can be production problems or design problems or whatever, with a particular model, that might be corrected later. But for now, I am going to wait a while before buying more storage. There's no real need for it, as long as I delete some of the poorer material that I already have on my hard drives. A lot of my stuff, I haven't even looked at after I downloaded it. So I need to clean up and organize my "collection" better. Edit01: I use anti-virus software, just not the anti-virus software that came with the Iomega unit. Everyone who is connected to the Internet needs both anti-virus and a firewall. Everyone should use both those programs, whether they are connected to the Internet or not. | |
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| 10-11-10 11:19pm - 5185 days | #13 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
You're smart to go with your instinct, lk2fireone. Dispite my favorable comment, I have a gut feeling you're gonna be glad you did. | |
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| 10-11-10 11:49pm - 5185 days | #14 | |
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Monahan (0)
Active User  Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA |
I just bought a 2.0 Gb Iomega (7200 RPM) hard drive for $104.99. The store also had a 2.0 Gb Seagate for $99.99. My experience with Iomega has always been good but with Seagate I've had issues. I always reformat any hard drive (NTFS) before I use them to get rid of all the unrequested and unneeded software. So far the new hard drive is working well and fast. I've transferred about 750 Gb of stuff from some older 160 and 200 drives just to consolidate everything and to free up the smaller ones for specialized stashes. Just one man's experience. | |
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| 10-12-10 01:17am - 5185 days | #15 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Just wanted to point out that most of the companies you see selling external hard drives don't actually make the drive - they just make the enclosure and interface. I used to have a website bookmarked that listed the actual manufacturers of PC components, but can't seem to find it. As I understand it the only current manufacturers are Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, Samsung, and Hitachi. Perhaps Iomega re-entered the arena, but I read a while ago they quit making the actual drive. Also, as I said before if you can find an eSATA drive, I would recommend it. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 10-12-10 03:23am - 5185 days | #16 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I believe that Iomega was bought out by Seagate a while back. And Quantum (a hard drive maker) was bought by Seagate years ago. So the number of disk drive makers keeps shrinking as the years go by. (The drive makers get bought out or go bankrupt.) | |
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| 10-14-10 10:04am - 5183 days | #17 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
I have had 3 Toshiba external hard drives. The first was a 300Gig about 5 years back. It still works OK. I also have 2 1TB drives. Both great. I am sticking with them. Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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