Suggest me a good brand for external hard drive

[mreccentric]

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.
OK, but the data is verymuch. I'll have to change to a broadband supporting high upload speeds. Thanks for the information.

 

[Sushubh]

patience. i mean. you do not have to do it in a short period of time right? how much stuff are we talking about here? i was able to upload 50GB data on google drive in less than a month with 800kbps upload speeds. and this was not running it 24x7.

 

[mreccentric]

i was able to upload 50GB data on google drive in less than a month with 800kbps upload speeds. and this was not running it 24x7.

Hmmm... so you have two accounts. Because what i heard that the max capacity per account is 25GB at 2.5$/month .

 

[Sushubh]

i have a paid account on google. 20 dollars 80GB per year. and google offer storage in terabytes if you are willing to pay for it. these are the current prices (per month):25 GB - $2.49100 GB - $4.99200 GB - $9.99400 GB - $19.991 TB - $49.992 TB - $99.994 TB - $199.998 TB - $399.9916 TB - $799.99if your requirement is less than 25GB, skydrive would have worked for you but i guess you won't have an active account so you would be stuck with 7GB storage.

 

[moindear]

Sometimes DVDs are better than External hard drives. I have lost some valuable code which I carried over the years from 2004-2007 and stupidly never uploaded it (it was close to 2-3 GB). I think online backup is lot better.Personally I prefer WD to Seagate, saw lots of problems with seagate HDD my brother had.

 

[Fiber_Optic]

I just lost my seagate HDD last week, gave it for RMA.Didn't lose a lot of important data, since I always backed up my important data, right now my backups are in a 16 GB pen drive.

 

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[mreccentric]

I just lost my seagate HDD last week, gave it for RMA.
Didn't lose a lot of important data, since I always backed up my important data, right now my backups are in a 16 GB pen drive.

Your Harddisk is a better place for backups than pendrive.

 

[Fiber_Optic]

I know, but right now I have only one HDD, till I get a replacement disk a pendrive is the best backup I could get.Thinking of moving to SSD and getting away from the dreaded clicking noise.

 

[mreccentric]

I know, but right now I have only one HDD, till I get a replacement disk a pendrive is the best backup I could get.

Thinking of moving to SSD and getting away from the dreaded clicking noise.

Right now SSDs are too costly, you might have to wait for some more days. Else, buying 2 External HDDs will be more cheap. BTW, whats the 'dreaded clicking noise' you're talking about?

I had an internal HDD which i used as External using certain modifications. Soon, that HDD got spoilt, and was making a grinding noise. Is that what you are talking about?

 

[Fiber_Optic]

Right now SSDs are too costly, you might have to wait for some more days. Else, buying 2 External HDDs will be more cheap. BTW, whats the 'dreaded clicking noise' you're talking about?

Ever since the Thailand flood, the HDD prices have gone through the roof, I think a 500 GB HDD and 64 GB SSD would cost about the same.

I had an internal HDD which i used as External using certain modifications. Soon, that HDD got spoilt, and was making a grinding noise. Is that what you are talking about?

No, the clicking noise happens when the HDD has failed or is on the verge of failing, mostly because the drive head is unable to move to the correct position.

Click of death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All my HD failures have happened after this clicking noise.