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 Post subject: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:54 pm 
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I'm looking for a 2TB USB 3 Hard Drive to keep a duplicate of things that are on my internal hard drive. I permanently back up files I want to keep to DVD.

These are what I looked at:
- Buffalo 2TB DriveStation External Hard Drive £110 2 year warranty
- WD 2TB My Book Essential USB 3.0 External Hard Drive £94.93 2 year warranty
- LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 2TB Porsche Design Desktop Drive £110 2 year Warranty

Should I have a preference on the make?

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:25 am 
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Caspius=GCHQ= wrote:
I'm looking for a 2TB USB 3 Hard Drive to keep a duplicate of things that are on my internal hard drive. I permanently back up files I want to keep to DVD.

These are what I looked at:
- Buffalo 2TB DriveStation External Hard Drive £110 2 year warranty
- WD 2TB My Book Essential USB 3.0 External Hard Drive £94.93 2 year warranty
- LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 2TB Porsche Design Desktop Drive £110 2 year Warranty

Should I have a preference on the make?

ive had 2 wd give up on me........ :shock:

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:19 am 
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what nicey said - google them and see wehat HD in inside and then google it to see if it has a high failure rate

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:10 am 
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I got a 1tb buffalo external, had for about 2 years, not had any probs with it. Got 2 internal WD 500gb, had constant inssues with but think its something else causing it... Have a 500gb wd which I'm not sure how old it is, flatty had it before me, still going... e

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:51 pm 
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I got a 2 TB WD with a USB 3 card in the end. I'm using Acronis True Image Home to back up the partitions on from my internal HD's. For the first time ever I now have a decent back up of everything on the PC. :smile:

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:21 pm 
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i would go for a dock. an esata or usb3 ,
Something like this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =HD-017-AK

but esata would be faster if your pc has esata ports?

http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-BlacX ... B001A4HAFS

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
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did you have to pay for that?

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:03 am 
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did you have to pay for that?


I can't answer that for fear of incriminating myself and my backed up partitions... :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:25 pm 
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nicey=GCHQ= wrote:
Caspius=GCHQ= wrote:
I'm looking for a 2TB USB 3 Hard Drive to keep a duplicate of things that are on my internal hard drive. I permanently back up files I want to keep to DVD.

These are what I looked at:
- Buffalo 2TB DriveStation External Hard Drive £110 2 year warranty
- WD 2TB My Book Essential USB 3.0 External Hard Drive £94.93 2 year warranty
- LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 2TB Porsche Design Desktop Drive £110 2 year Warranty

Should I have a preference on the make?

ive had 2 wd give up on me........ :shock:


I'm no IT guy but is the problem not sorted by having enough space in the freezer for the drive? Atleast I think that what my buddy Roberto does when they give up on him :D.. Think he got the advice from some pro IT guys.

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:59 pm 
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if its any help.. had a Lacie 1TB network drive hosting all my er.. 'camcorder' movies for about 5 years.. on 24/7 and probably streams 8 hrs a night virtually every night.. not sure who makes the drive in there but its lasted.. no knocking or anything else. Awesome..

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
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Caspius=GCHQ= wrote:
happyslappy wrote:
did you have to pay for that?


I can't answer that for fear of incriminating myself and my backed up partitions... :wink:


hehe - have a play with Macrium Reflect, 'tis free. :)

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 Post subject: Re: External Hard Drive
 Post Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:28 pm 
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