external hard drives

[BethG]

It's time for a new external hard drive. What is everybody using? After an evacuation for Ike I want portable! I have a small Seagate drive but it's not big enough any more.

[Abel]

i currently use western digital my books... 1tb in size. i keep my photos on internal drives and back up to these externals and keep them off site just in case my whole house burns down when im not there etc.

[mdparthum]

I was using Western Digital My Books, but they seemed to crash way too often. I had three go down within a three month span. I switched to Iomega drives. They seem fine so far. I also use them for double backups.

[iamntxhunter]

I use a 750GB Click Free external Hard Drive. It is so simple and fast. You can select what you want backed up with just a few clicks plus all you do is hook it up via a USB port. Hands down the simplest one I have used.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by mdparthum

I was using Western Digital My Books, but they seemed to crash way too often. I had three go down within a three month span. I switched to Iomega drives. They seem fine so far. I also use them for double backups.

Hmmm, that is interesting. I also own three and had zero problems.

[Tom]

I use WD a lot. Also have one Seagate. No problems with any of them.

[groovyone]

I LOVE my Buffalo Tech drives. Their new USB3.0 drives are out and pretty darn affordable. B&H just had the 640GB USB 3.0 portable for $75.

I have 160 and 320GB BT portables backed up on a WD desktop 500GB, 2 BT 500GB portables backed up on a desktop 1TB USB2.0/Firewire800/eSATA, and I have 2 640GB USB3.0 BTs backed up on a 2TB desktop USB3.0 BT.

[Rson]

I use a Buffalo Live Station duo.....it is larger than a external but you get Mirrored drives and Networkability.

Running on a gig switch, transfer is pretty speedy.

[Charles Putnam]

Was watching a video of Chase Jarvis's setup, and they had a huge array of G-Tech (made by Hitachi) drives. I think G Tech also makes portable external drives also. Slightly more expensive, but quite reliable from what I've read.

[zachary]

Drobo

Nothing else quite like it.

[Jusselin]

western digital passport.....light weight fits in my pocket...easy to plug in and is 1tb in size

[Stargazer77517]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Hmmm, that is interesting. I also own three and had zero problems.

Same here I have 2 and no problems.

[LadyShutterBug]

I use LaCie Quadras for my desk (one for storage, then one that is backup for the storage drive). I have a LaCie Rugged that I keep in my laptop bag when traveling.

I recently had a potentially catastrophic succession of hard drive failures-- the macbook pro hard drive crashed, and before i could get it back to reinstall everything my external hard drive crashed. I had the external recovered by DriveSavers to the tune of eleventy billion dollars, and the replacement EHD they sent me was also a LaCie Quadra.

[ggeen]

I use a Maxtor and Timemachine to backup my Mac. The Maxtor I a 750GB FireWire device at 800mb/s

[Tom]

Originally Posted by zachary

Drobo

Nothing else quite like it.

There are lots of redundant storage solutions like it that are cheaper and don't use proprietary software that only the manufacturer can help you out with if you have a crash.