Need Suggestions For Reliable External Hdd

[DarkStar_WNY]

I'm looking for an external drive to store photos and small videos (nothing fancy, just short v clips taken with our digital cameras.)

Would prefer USB connection but speed is a distant second to reliability and life span.

And yes they will be burned to DVDs, but a well indexed hdd is much more convenient and of course well hold the pics much sooner then a DVD will.

 

[mwroobel]

Regardless of whichever drive you finally choose, buy a second one and do regular backups of one to the other. That said, I tend to prefer the WD 2.5" drives over the Seagate though one is no more reliable than the other in the grand scheme of things.

 

[x509]

I'm looking for an external drive to store photos and small videos (nothing fancy, just short v clips taken with our digital cameras.)

Would prefer USB connection but speed is a distant second to reliability and life span.

And yes they will be burned to DVDs, but a well indexed hdd is much more convenient and of course well hold the pics much sooner then a DVD will.

You mihgt consider buying the "internal" drive and the drive case separately. I like the cases that support both USB and eSATA. The latter is much faster than the former, but you can't dismount an eSATA drive, at least I can't figure out how to do that.

 

[Globox]

build your own
the external enclosures are less then $50