[SOLVED] Buying an External Hdd. What are your Experiences ?

[fahdfsk]

Salam Guys,

Whats up? I have a laptop with 120GB ssd installed, recently I am starting to feel that I need much more space. When I bought the Laptop I had a good PC with 1TB Hdd which now, does not exist.

So I am thinking to buy 2TB External Hdd (Seagate or Western Digital) with USB 3.0. Do you guys think buying an external hdd is worth the money being invested in it?

One of my friend bought it, it did not last long. That really scares me, I dont wanna invest 8k to 10k in a product that will not last more than a year or two.

Mostly, I will use it on my home desk, I will save data like HD movies, songs, DSLR pictures, gameplay videos and mobile videos. But, I will also keep it while travelling out of city which I do almost twice a month.

So, anyone with experience ? Please help by a suggestion.


Regards

 

[Ovais909]

buy a hdd caddy that fits into the CD rom area, in that you can install normal 2.5 laptop hdd

 

[izaan]

External HDD are really helpful but it needs to be connected with USB which sucks and the cable often breaks , tho i have been using my seagate 500Gb since a year and haven't faced any issues yet except for USB Cable

 

[Nomiforu]

Instead of getting an external hdd. Buy a normal one with a hdd caddy. Install you're os on ssd and use the hdd for normal. This kind of a setup would be cheaper than buying an external hdd

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[nafu]

External hard drives are less reliable, especially when it comes to long run important data storage. I currently have ADATA External 1TB Hard drive, which I bought just a couple of months ago, is dying with only 9% health remaining. So, if you go with external hard drive then consider Western Digital brand only as it has much better reliability rate.

On my research, external hard drives are not as reliable as internal ones.

 

[fahdfsk]

External hard drives are less reliable, especially when it comes to long run important data storage. I currently have ADATA External 1TB Hard drive, which I bought just a couple of months ago, is dying with only 9% health remaining. So, if you go with external hard drive then consider Western Digital brand only as it has much better reliability rate.

On my research, external hard drives are not as reliable as internal ones.

Damn ! I just bought it. How do you check the health of the drive ?

 

[nafu]

Damn ! I just bought it. How do you check the health of the drive ?

Hard drive utilities
HD Tune website
Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Which one you bought?

 

[rafay22]

What was the point of this thread if you were gonna buy it without taking suggestions!

 

[fahdfsk]

Hard drive utilities
HD Tune website
Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Which one you bought?

Seagate Expansion Drive 2TB. Satisfied with everything right now. Hope it works fine for at least 2 years.

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What was the point of this thread if you were gonna buy it without taking suggestions!

I was kinda in a hurry and the replies came a bit late bro

 

[rafay22]

Seagate Expansion Drive 2TB. Satisfied with everything right now. Hope it works fine for at least 2 years.

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I was kinda in a hurry and the replies came a bit late bro

Ok, np, seagate is a very good brand. Btw my WD external drive is working fine, its been like 8+ years now, father bought it when I was in ~8/9th class, now I am a university graduate. lol

 

[nafu]

Seagate Expansion Drive 2TB. Satisfied with everything right now. Hope it works fine for at least 2 years.

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I was kinda in a hurry and the replies came a bit late bro

Seagate has more failure rate, but, nonetheless, a fine choice.
I hope it will serve you for long run. Just keep the health in check.