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Who makes the best external hard drives?
Posted on 1/3/21 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 1/3/21 at 5:42 pm
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Posted on 1/3/21 at 7:48 pm to prplhze2000
I’ve always been partial to WD. Had a Seagate fail on me in college.
Not sure if WD is tops in the SSD world if that’s what you’re looking for.
Not sure if WD is tops in the SSD world if that’s what you’re looking for.
Posted on 1/3/21 at 8:05 pm to prplhze2000
I think the prices are too good on external SSDs now to fool around with hard drives. If you insist on a hard drive though, WD was always good for me. Don't get the bottom of the line one no matter which brand you pick (i think WD's budget pick is the Blue but don't quote me) because it's almost always more failure prone
Posted on 1/3/21 at 8:54 pm to Ingeniero
Been five years since I bought one. Ssid?
Posted on 1/3/21 at 9:03 pm to prplhze2000
Solid state drive. Much fewer moving parts than a hard drive. Think of it as a very large capacity flash drive. They're more expensive per gb of storage but they're more reliable and durable in my experience than hard drives. Samsung makes good ones from what I've seen.
Posted on 1/3/21 at 9:40 pm to prplhze2000
The Japanese
Posted on 1/3/21 at 10:01 pm to Eyebesmacinhose
To me your use case and the software provided with the drive would be big decision criteria. Do you need a high capacity drive for backing up large amounts of data/media? If so an SSD is still going to be a good bit more expensive. If you just need some external storage for "stuff", an SSD is fine and it's faster than a regular HD.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 8:03 am to LSUtigerME
quote:Last I heard a few years ago, Seagate had manufacturing flaws that would take a total factory retooling to correct. They made a business decision to accept the failure rate and continue cheap HDD production uninterrupted.
Had a Seagate fail on me in college.
Since then, SSD have continued to increase market share for storage devices, so it was probably a wise decision not to invest in a retooling.
quote:
The firm believes the problem is the result of a manufacturing flaw, and not in the design of the drive.
quote:from AppleInsider (13 years ago though)
"It's Seagate's problem, but it's Apple's responsibility to address the problem, since they're providing the part," said Duncan Clarke, managing director for Retrodata. "Apple needs to own up and take action."
Posted on 1/4/21 at 8:55 am to Ingeniero
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Solid state drive. Much fewer moving parts than a hard drive.
In that sense, I guess you could also say SSDs have "much fewer" tomatoes in them than ketchup.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:39 am to Sidicous
I had read that Seagate had gotten better. I've always stuck with WD though since I shuck them anyway.
And you can't get a 10TB SSD. If you could afford it.
And you can't get a 10TB SSD. If you could afford it.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:35 am to prplhze2000
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Been five years since I bought one. Ssid?
damn i pick one up every 5-6 months it seems.
just grabbed a 14TB WD from best buy during black friday for $189.
fricking thing formats out to like 12.8TB
really hate the marketing bullshite on these larger drives; they should be forced to list the real capacity at the top and the claimed capacity in parenthesis.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:42 am to CAD703X
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fricking thing formats out to like 12.8TB really hate the marketing bullshite on these larger drives; they should be forced to list the real capacity at the top and the claimed capacity in parenthesis.
That has nothing to do with the hard drive
manufacturers
Posted on 1/4/21 at 10:47 am to CAD703X
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really hate the marketing bullshite on these larger drives; they should be forced to list the real capacity at the top and the claimed capacity in parenthesis.
Technically both capacities are the real capacity, it's just that the manufacturers are using decimal (base 10) capacity and the OS is using binary (Base 2) capacity.
It's the same number of bytes. Your OS just reads a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes instead of 1,000,000,000 bytes.
I absolutely snagged two of those 14TB WD drives myself for Black Friday. I think almost all of my external drives are WD at this point.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 11:30 am to sahikojones
quote:Yep, terabytes vs tebibytes.
Technically both capacities are the real capacity, it's just that the manufacturers are using decimal (base 10) capacity and the OS is using binary (Base 2) capacity.
It's the same number of bytes. Your OS just reads a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes instead of 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Posted on 1/4/21 at 8:25 pm to prplhze2000
WD Reds
Posted on 1/4/21 at 8:35 pm to prplhze2000
I'm not an expert - but I've had really good experience with Sandisk Extremes for my photography stuff.
Recently switched to CalDigit Nano and they're even better.
Recently switched to CalDigit Nano and they're even better.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 9:43 am to Sidicous
I'm old enough to remember when Seagate was the gold standard for Hard Drives. Watching it's quality plummet was kind of sad. I've been a Western Digital proponent for quite some time now. Also think SSD is the way to go, particularly of you travel with you external quite a bit.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 6:41 pm to prplhze2000
Unless you need an absolute ton of storage or are very, very poor, there is no reason to go HDD over SSD.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 6:49 pm to Joshjrn
It's not about being poor or how we define "an absolute ton", it's a question of whether you need the capabilities of SSD to justify the 4X price premium.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 9:10 pm to Korkstand
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It's not about being poor or how we define "an absolute ton", it's a question of whether you need the capabilities of SSD to justify the 4X price premium.
You're only seeing that level of price increase if you compare the barest of bones HDD and a high end SSD. And I agree with you as long as you include "functionally never fails" as part of its capabilities.
But again, if you actually need like 10TB+, sure, have at it.
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