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External hard drive question
« on: August 14, 2008, 02:20:09 PM »
Anyone have any experience with the Seagate 1T external hard drives? Tiger Direct has em on sale.

Seems like a good deal if it's a reliable drive. Reviews at NewEgg are mostly good, but not a ton of them yet.
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Re: External hard drive question
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2008, 03:47:16 PM »
I've been buying Seagate internal and external hard drives for over a decade. The only problem I've ever had with one was the result of the local electric company's failure.
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Re: External hard drive question
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2008, 06:27:38 PM »
Hey, thanks for the heads-up.  I was able to snag the last one for that price...

Just kidding.

Seagate & Western Digital are both quality HDs.  They switch places as to which is better every so often & sometimes one will produce a lemon.

One thing I would caution you about: any external HD without a metal case or without a fan will fail sooner under hard use than one that doesn't.  If it is idle most of the time it is no big whoop, though.

I have not heard anything bad about that drive.  I would just suggest that be sure you get Firewire 2 interface if you transfer rate is an issue.  It smokes USB 2.0.  USB is fine for backups, but I am not happy to work straight off a USB drive that is not flash memory.


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