How about using another internal hard disk as secondary?
if u have space well enough for that u can by all means have that option
Internal drives are constantly spinning (even if green drives used to some extent), so their life I am guessing may not be as good as the external USB thingies that you use once in a week to backup.
but the reality is vice versa , internal drives failures are little less than external drives , it could be because of constant moving , shifting and shocks for the external drives
my
laptop hard disk has survived for 5 years and still running , but had a exchange a 1 TB
seagate within a year of purchase
but it all depends on luck i should say
i can back up data from two or more computers, so i dont want an internal hard disk. Moreover, internal hard disks have more risks of virus attack. BTW, it seems like 1TB is virtually enough for Photos and videos. But, don't know. Seagate seems to be quite cheaper compared to Western Digital. Which one to go? Again the point of importance is reliability, i'm okay with the speed.
seagate support is good , price is cheap , easily available , built quality is bad
WD support is kinda OK , u need to contact them they will pick the HDD from u and deliver the replacement one , price is little more , available in metros alone
built quality is very good .
if u want i can post the photos of seagate backup+ VS WD my passport .
okay, i just learned now that an external harddisk unplugged for an year or so will lose all its data inside it. So, not using the hard disk for long time not necessarily increase data life.
i had this doubt 3 years back and got it cleared after reading .
if u are not going to use it for a long time , just store it in a safe place , thats it
External hard drives are more or less like gambling , sometimes u win and sometimes u lose you cant find the reason for both
every off and on puts load on the various components decreasing their life. my personal advice would be to get a hard disk. and then prepare a long term online backup solution for the ultimate redundancy. even if you are on a fupped plan, you can easily plan to spare 5GB per month? you do not necessarily have to backup everything in one go right?
