Which external hard drive do you recommend?

9 years 8 months ago #393677 by Stealthy Ninja

garyrhook wrote: I know there's an echo in here, but I'll say it again.

RAID 1 NAS.


I think personally a separate backup not within the same housing is better than RAID 1.  That way a power surge or something won't fry both your "backup" drives at once (I mean backing up your backup drive on another external drive is better than having two in one)

Of course if you use it as an external daily/weekly/monthly backup and you can afford to set up RAID 1, then why not do it.  Just another layer of protection you can have there.  Then you can always have another occasional backup drive separate from the RAID setup too.... in fact we could just keep going and going LOL.

Then you can forget about it for a few months and lose everything you'd done lately like I did the other day.
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9 years 8 months ago #393689 by shelland

effron wrote: WD sucks, Seagate sucks...see where I'm going?  You have to expect ANY HD to fail and simply have more than a single back up. Check the reviews on any unit and see...they will ALL fail. Don't be a sucker for a brand name, they are all the same inside.....:(


I go and read reviews at NewEgg every once in a while when I see a good sale, and there unfortunately isn't a hard drive on the market that doesn't have all kinds of complaints against it. Unfortunately, that's the nature of the technology. 

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