Need Backup Help!
Hey Guys,
I’m in the market for an external hard drive to store all my music on. I am looking for either a 1TB or 2TB hard drive. I want to buy it on BlackFriday so I started doing my research today, and I fell upon a lot of hard drives that have people complaining that they are unreliable.
I was just wondering, what do you guys use? What would you suggest I buy?
Preferably looking at a 2TB one.
Thanks in advance,
Coldfuzion
[ame]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Essential-External-Drive/dp/B000W9RNOA[/ame] This one seems to have some good reviews.
Currently I’m all hot for Seagate-drives (and possess two external ones myself). Had quite some problems (including total data loss) with Western Digital.
What I recommend you is to get some online-storage and upload all your music to the web (mustn’t be linked to a domain). This keeps me sleeping at night.
Can’t go wrong with Lacie drives.
[ame]Amazon.com
Omni - I read the review for the 2TB one of that same model, a lot of people were saying don’t buy it. That’s actually the one that made me create this post because I wanted to see what everyone else recommended instead of that.
Hedge - Are your Seagate ones working fine? How long have you had them for? And what sites would you suggest for online storage? Thing is I want to use an external hard drive to store all my music on, and then depending on the gig i’m playing, upload like 10 / 20gb worth of music onto my laptop and bring the drive along as well. So if anything happens to the drive, I have my music on my laptop ready to go anyway.
Photo - The only problem with that is its price , I can get another companies 2TB one for half the price of that on Black Friday, but if its truly worth the price, I guess i’ll dish it out. And how long have you had yours? Has it worked perfectly?
I guess in general there will always be a lemon for every type of product, i’m just hoping to find a brand with the least amount of lemons 
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Thanks again for all your input guys,
Coldfuzion
Just get a 64Gb memory stick, haha. I don’t know how people can go wrong with any type of external hard drive. It’s just a storage device…
One of my dropped from height of 6 inches (!). All data was unrecoverable.
I’ve had one Seagate-hdd for 14 months and another one for 6 months. They travel a lot each week in my backpack and I dropped one twice but they’re still fine.
i have a 4tb NAS western digital at home.
and balls of steel!
As of right now, I guess I am locked onto the Seagate 2TB which i’m getting for $90.
Thanks for your responses guys!
Ok, see you necro-bumping this thread when the HDD crashes
Just joking.
Not funny jerk 
, good thing is my good friend and I share our music, so he has it all backed up as well incase of a crash. Thing is I don’t want it to crash at all!
I’d say go with Western Digitals one mate!
I got a snazzy lil 320GB and its perfect, good and easy to use locking software too.
DJew
My time machine backup is full so I’m in the market as well. I think I’m going Seagate though cause the Lacie is just to much $$ for me to.
Yeah Photo, I will be doing the same thing. Just an fyi, Staples & Best Buy have it for $90 on Black Friday.
Two words when talking backup…Triple redundancy!..or is that three
seven!
But I get what you mean. I’m also of the paranoid kind and backing up on two discs plus online.