wwwd Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Right, you may remember I started a thread a while ago looking for the cheapest 1TB External HD. Well it's got to a stage where I need one to backup all my stuff, and I've been looking online for the cheapest. But the Seagate one's that are coming up have a lot of negative reviews about the failing, etc. which is exactly what I want to avoid! So can anyone recommend a certain drive (with a link) or company they think produce reliable ones? Reliability is the most important aspect so I'm willing to pay a bit more for quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apnea Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 A bloke I used to work with had this one I think http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PHILIPS-1TB-External...=item518d97c1af I never heard him complain about it. Sorry im not much help but that might be another one to do some research about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 (edited) i've a Western Digital "my book" IIRC, external drive and never had a problem with it, 500gbb Edited October 26, 2009 by Lordjc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchkev Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 wouldnt touch iomega either, prone to failing in both 500 and 1TB guizes, as i found out!, friend had a WD and its never let him down yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Have a 750gig Lacie external & 160 3 1/2 inch lacie here not had any problems so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadge Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Me and the girlfriend each have a Western digital elements desktop 1TB HDD which is this one here - http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?o...&sa=title#p They are extremely good and cheap. Tesco had them at £66 the other day I noticed and did consider buying another. My girlfriend dropped hers the other day about 3-4ft straight onto a hard tiled floor while it was running. I had half expected the drives platters to be physically damaged since it refused to mount. I thought I would give chkdsk a go anyway and left it running overnight, the next morning the corrupted segments and the MBR had been fixed and the drive was sitting there nicely all working with no apparent data loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 Me and the girlfriend each have a Western digital elements desktop 1TB HDD which is this one here - http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?o...&sa=title#p They are extremely good and cheap. Tesco had them at £66 the other day I noticed and did consider buying another. My girlfriend dropped hers the other day about 3-4ft straight onto a hard tiled floor while it was running. I had half expected the drives platters to be physically damaged since it refused to mount. I thought I would give chkdsk a go anyway and left it running overnight, the next morning the corrupted segments and the MBR had been fixed and the drive was sitting there nicely all working with no apparent data loss.Thanks for that, it looks good I did read a review that says it has to be converted to NTFS which can take around 6 hours - is that necessary for 500GB drives as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadge Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Converting to NTFS takes only minutes if not seconds, especially if the drive is empty and you can just preform a quick format. Quick format - Shorter time, just quickly allows data to be rewritten overNormal - Takes longer but checks the drives integrity whilst doing the format it can be done via right clicking on my computer > manage > disk management > format - You just then set it to NTFS and click OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 Excuse me for being stupid, but why does it need to be in NTFS format as opposed to FAT32? Surely it's still going to have 1TB capacity isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Excuse me for being stupid, but why does it need to be in NTFS format as opposed to FAT32? Surely it's still going to have 1TB capacity isn't it?Fat32 has size limits (i think its 4 gig files) NTFS does not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I dont think FAT32 can use 1TB? at least not as one partition, and filesizes will be limited to 4GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 Ah okay, so as long as I don't have a file which is over 4GB, then it doesn't matter? As I can still put on as many files as will fit into 1TB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I think there is a limitation to the size of the partition, I seem to remember 32GB but am not sure if thats a windows problem. But NTFS really would do, and a quick format will take no time at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadge Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 as Peewee mentions its down to file sizes, it will refuse to let you copy anything over 4GB and 4GB really isn't all that much For example if you are making full "backups" then: A DVD = 4.7GB (single layer)Dual layer disc (most games) = 8.5GBBlue Ray disc = 25GB There is documentation all over the internet for Fat32vsNTFS but really your better off with NTFS. I am pretty sure they fixed the 32GB limitation back in the days of Windows 98? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 Cool, I'm about to purchase the WD Hard Drive Gadge suggested, anyone else recommend it before I buy it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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