Suggest me a good brand for external hard drive

[techtata]

Hi,I am interested in buying a 500 GB an external hard drive for my laptop. Which brand I should go for? Thanks.

 

[mreccentric]

Hi,

I am interested in buying a 500 GB an external hard drive for my laptop. Which brand I should go for? Thanks.

You buying it for laptop/ for storage?
IMO, Seagate is the best.

 

[manu1991]

WD My Passport Essential 500GB USB 3.0 - Buy Online in India for Rs.4,250 as on 18th May 2012 - Price, Features, Reviews, Specifications, Photos, Videos | BuyThePrice.com

good deal. also has USB 3.0 support. the lowest price on ebay for this seems to be 4.6k

 

[onlytest]

Seagate / Western DigitalBoth are good brands. But remember HDDs are not reliable even for a second. You copy your precious DATA today, and next day when you want to access HDD, you will see HDD is already dead. Data Recovery charges are much higher than buying 3 or 4 HDDs. So always backup your priceless data on two or more HDDs. (I am not talking about your 1080i/p collection of movies)

 

[Sid]

Will recommend WD , seagate gets more hot thn the WD. What about the internal storage you have? U can either use the internal one as external. Buy a case for it (150-300 rupees) and buy a new WD green HDD for internal . Just a option from my side.

 

[mreccentric]

I have many documents, which i've stored in my computer. it's around several GBs. I do want to buy an external USB HDD. Probably will buy 1 HDDs of 1TB/500GB will do, because the other copy of it will be in the computer. The possibility of both going wrong on the same time is less/near to zero.Any suggestions upon this?

 

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[Sushubh]

google drivedropboxmicrosoft skydrive

 

[mreccentric]

google drive
Dropbox
microsoft skydrive

How reliable and safe is Google Drive?

 

[raj2007]

So always backup your priceless data on two or more HDDs. (I am not talking about your 1080i/p collection of movies)
LOL..

 

[Sushubh]

How reliable and safe is Google Drive?

prolly more reliable than physical media in your own home? keep multiple copies on multiple servers if you are that paranoid.

i am not a fan of relying on physical media at home for important data. i have suffered an office fire that destroyed one computer. shit can happen.