Thread: Looking for a harddrive

Have been looking around for a portable harddrive for all of my torrenting needs. Came across this and thought it was rather decent especially for the price. Comes with a 5 year warranty as well. I hope this may benefit the users here in the United States.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate+...&skuId=9539537



I was wondering what harddrives other users use and if they have any recommendations as well.

any other WD hdd is ok Seagate is crap very poor made :/ two Seagate died and a lot of problems with them you can see on forums i have one WD My Book 1TB working great for years :)

I've had 3 WDs including the MyBook in the past and they all crapped out on my within a month of purchasing them. Luckily I was able to refund the harddrives. It's quite possible I just got a bad lot each time :P All of the Seagates that I have purchased have yet to fail me.

I don't like WD too .. I had 2 WD Green 500 GBs for my home server (I intentionally took Green edition cause I thought its low rpm and low power consumer so it will be more stable). They both died within a month with all my data (and they were all unrecoverable)!!

So I got Samsung F1 .. and after 1.5 years, its still performing like brand new with my 24/7 running home server. So if you are planning to go with WD, think twice.

Originally Posted by sam8cb

any other WD hdd is ok Seagate is crap very poor made :/ two Seagate died and a lot of problems with them you can see on forums i have one WD My Book 1TB working great for years :)

I agree, WD any day over crapgate.

If I was you I would check around a bit ,
your sure to get a better deal.
Friend of mine just got a WD 2tb for $100 on amazon.
this one has 604> 5 stars ;)

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Well the main issue is I would like to find something that is portable and easily taken around since I'm on the go often. But yes, it seems like common sense to look around and to check reviews before biting on a deal. I have read many concerns that Seagate has lowered the quality of their harddrives in the past couple of years. This also seems to be an older model.

hi bakarasyed, i have 2 wd externals 1x 250gig via usb and 1 x wd 1tb ext via
firewire i think, they are good drives and sure they will serve you well, but i must admit i found transfering data seems a little slow so i have stopped using them too much now and just installed another 1tb seagate 3.5" which is working fine aswell.

I have a Samsung HD for almost 2 years, i'm torrenting in it non-stop. A WD i bought died with two months of light usage.

I think that even if Samsung is more expensive, it worths for the headache the others can give to you. I'm an adept of the quality over quantity, but i've also heard many times that eventually all HDs will die and your best shot is to have a redundancy to avoid loosing data.

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