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Firewire external HDD. Recommendations please.
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Nectarios
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Posted : Jan 27, 2009 19:27:42
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Obelizk
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Posted : Jan 27, 2009 20:21
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i'd go with seagate. They give you a 5 year warranty. So within 5 years, if it breaks, they'll replace it. |
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xrust
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Posted : Jan 27, 2009 22:35
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i have end to believe that in hard disks,everything is a matter of luck,so i wouldnt thought too much of it.10 eyros up or down is not a big deal anyway
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psylevation
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Posted : Jan 28, 2009 02:56
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I bought a western digital and it died on me 3 months after I bought it, along with all my data that I had backed up on it.
I've had multiple seagate drives that have never failed.
This is my experience, mileage (kilometereage?  ) could vary.
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Elad
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Kane
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Posted : Jan 29, 2009 04:17
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I haven't had too many hard drive problems, but the ones I have had were with western digital. I got a 500gb Buffalo external, and ended up getting a 500 gig seagate drive for free. Replaced the stock drive with the seagate and it's been totally fine for over 2 years.
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Hg
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Posted : Jan 29, 2009 05:05
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never had any problems in over a year with my 1TB Western Digital My Book besides having a difficult time to get new power cables after I lost them...
Would also suggest partitioning the disk leaving 10 percent of its capacity in an empty disk unit to prevent crashes
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Posted : Jan 30, 2009 18:20
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On 2009-01-29 05:05, Hg wrote:
Would also suggest partitioning the disk leaving 10 percent of its capacity in an empty disk unit to prevent crashes
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Could you please, go into some more detail about how this prevents crashes?
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Hg
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Posted : Jan 30, 2009 21:58
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On 2009-01-30 18:20, pipe&slippers wrote:
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On 2009-01-29 05:05, Hg wrote:
Would also suggest partitioning the disk leaving 10 percent of its capacity in an empty disk unit to prevent crashes
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Could you please, go into some more detail about how this prevents crashes?
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sure. i crashed 2 HDs from the apple laptops (G4 iBook and Powerbook 13") in the old days probably because they were used to their limit too often (rather small drives)..
after reading discussions in outside forums i realised this was happening to a lot of people
ever since then i avoid using more than 90% of its capacity and have partitioned the 1TB external leaving 10% free, which i sometimes use as a temporary folder.. and never had any problems ever since
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