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A good big external hard drive.

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Fraishus

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Hi,

I'm going on a lengthy business trip and I need access to all my data, since I have no idea what I'll end up needing, and don't want it stuck back at home. It turns out I've got 3 hard drives sitting around with years of stuff on em', and 2 more drives inside of 2 computers. I've got to consolidate all my data together into one external drive to take with me. So the drive should be 500gb minimum. Sadly, there's apparently no externals based on the new Hitachi 1TB drive yet, which is what I wanted. I don't want the externals that actually have 2 hard drives inside. Keep it simple stupid.

What's the best external drive for this? I've looked into the Western Digital My Book's Pro / Premium, but after reading hundreds of negative reviews on Newegg, I'm a bit afraid of trusting the WD My Book series. The reviews go as follows: "drive just died after just 1 week." -- I've seen that fifty times at least! "I put all my data on it, and within 2 days it was a no-starter." People are also saying that the My Book shuts down after 10 minutes, and has to spin up again every single time you access it, and that there's no possible way to configure the spindown timer.

Any ideas?
-f
 
Dont always go by the reviews on NewEgg, most of their users/customers are neither the best or the brightest. Fry's B&M stores (i think it was them) had a 1Tb Lacie external drive for ~260ish, no rebates, out the door. don't know if its a 2x500 gig, it looked to small to be a 4x250, and Lacie drives are supposed to be performance leaders, though no personal experience on my end.
 
My lacie porsche design 250GB drive uses a Western Digital drive in it, so I'm sure the only real difference is the enclosure and maybe the chipset for that.
 
The reviews basically said that the enclosure/ventilation/power supply was blowing up the drives in the mybooks.
 
I don't like 3.5 drives for moving around. I have read some people say they think that is why the MyBook stuff fails - because standard drives don't move around as well as 2.5 laptop drives. I have a 2.5 Western Digital Passport that gets dropped, shook, poked and pulled and its going strong 2 years now. There are enclosures for 2.5 drives as well and some even have windows to read data info. I saw them in my photography forum. They were cheao too - around $50.
 
After reading some of the negative reviews about the WD My Book, I decided to give it a try. I'm able to copy movie files to the drive at the rate of almost 1GB per minute using the USB port (a 700mb video file takes 45 seconds to be exact). I can play back video files and music files dircectly from the external drive with no adverse sound or video effects/delays.

The power goes into a sleep mode if the drive is not in use for 10 minutes-- a marvelous feature. To wake it up, you simply tap the big (silver dollor size) button on front. Now how hard can that be; I can reach down and tap the button without looking at it, and it goes back on instantly:cool:
 
rodsfree said:
Buy the big drive and get an external enclosure to roll your own.

Like all of these.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&N=2010090092+1053807123+1054107131&name=SATA
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Probably the best way to go as you, the user decides the brand of HD to put in there.

rblews said:
After reading some of the negative reviews about the WD My Book, I decided to give it a try. I'm able to copy movie files to the drive at the rate of almost 1GB per minute using the USB port (a 700mb video file takes 45 seconds to be exact). I can play back video files and music files dircectly from the external drive with no adverse sound or video effects/delays.

The power goes into a sleep mode if the drive is not in use for 10 minutes-- a marvelous feature. To wake it up, you simply tap the big (silver dollor size) button on front. Now how hard can that be; I can reach down and tap the button without looking at it, and it goes back on instantly:cool:
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Got myself a MyBook too, never noticed the power off feature.
 
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