Suggested HD for backup?

[NickSimcheck]

I've always been a fan of Seagate and Western Digital, neither have ever failed me and I've had more dud Maxtor's then ones that worked for a year. I also shy away from anything over 100GB just because I don't like to put all my eggs in one basket. Any experence with 60-100Gig external?

I'm backing up to 2 seperate HD's, one for using pictures and another for storage in my safe. Arcive Gold DVD's off location aswell.

[crn3371]

I've got a Western Digital 80gig external. Haven't had any issues with it. I'm like you, backup to external drive, also burn dvd's, can't be too safe.

[Trasmc]

As an FYI - Circuit City had an add today for a 160GB Seagate external for $89 after $80 worth of rebates. I've looked around for a bit and this seemed not a bad price. I think the deal was from 3/5 through 3/11?

[gasrocks]

I asked the biggest computer repair shop in town which brand. They said Western Digital. Mine is fine.

[kram]

I use a Seagate. From what I could browse on the net, I came back with a view that Seagate had less complaints and higher recos.

So far so good. But as with all HDs, some are bound to be duds. Multiple backups seem to be the only solution :(

[cruzyn56]

Comp USA had a SeaGate 300 GB for $99. I picked that up along with an enclosure ($54). Now I have external hard drive and DVD backups. Besides an online backup you will want an offline backup as well. Copies of the offline should be "offsite". In the event of a fire or some other catastrophic incident you would any copy kept local to your computer. If you want to be really safe you will store a copy of your data at a separate location.

[Macavity]

I just picked up a Seagate 300GB external from Best Buy a week or two ago. It's been great so far, but I guess I won't really know for a few months. :)

[Kostyanych]

All hardrives will die sooner or later. Just remember it. :)

[In2Photos]

Picked up a Seagate 200GB a few weeks ago, but if the WD was the same price I would have just flipped a coin between the two.

[kaitanium]

scroll down the page here and youll find instructions on how to get a seagate 200gb for $3.99 after rebates. if you wanna go through all the trouble =)

http://www.spoofee.com/

personally i rather get a bunch of smaller drives, maybe 40gbs or 80gbs and have a redundant array setup of like 3

[In2Photos]

scroll down the page here and youll find instructions on how to get a seagate 200gb for $3.99 after rebates. if you wanna go through all the trouble =)

http://www.spoofee.com/

personally i rather get a bunch of smaller drives, maybe 40gbs or 80gbs and have a redundant array setup of like 3

I don't think that would work. Retailers know this sort of thing happens and they will generally figure out how to prevent it. Since the rebate forms generally require that you send in a copy of your original receipt and that copy will be written on for the price match. So you say OK I will copy it before the price match. However Circuit City will confirm your price in their systme before they issue the rebate. Since you got a price match you won't get the rebate.

I did however get the Seagate 200GB for $29.99 AR from Compusa a couple of weeks ago.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Nothing over 100GB?

I don't know what kind of file size your using that you could survive with only 100GB,.. but this is pretty limiting and the logic is a little flawed. If the intention is to use a drive for back up then by definition your eggs are no longer in one basket. :)

[NickSimcheck]

Nothing over 100GB?

I don't know what kind of file size your using that you could survive with only 100GB,.. but this is pretty limiting and the logic is a little flawed. If the intention is to use a drive for back up then by definition your eggs are no longer in one basket. :)


I could use one 160 gig and lose everything or I could get two 80 gigs and and have another offsite. I don't like to keep a lot of files on one hard drive either. I never put any files on my PC.

[4x4rock]

I just got a 300GB Maxtor from Fry's for $89 and an enclosure for $20. I have good and bad luck with all kind of HD manufactures, seagate, maxtor, ibm, WD, even the old Quantum.

You can get an USB2.0 external 250GB for around $89-99 after rebate. Or get 2 same size drives and mirror them so once crashes you still can have the data.

Eventually I'll probably get the Terastation NAS and have RAID5 since its price has been dropping lately.

Double back up is the best; burn to DVD and also store externally.