Newegg has the Seagate GoFlex Desk Kit 2TB USB 3.0 Black External Hard Drive (STAC2000106) for $100 with free shipping. Features 7200RPM drive speed. Measures 6.22"L x 4.88"W x 1.73"D.
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I bought the 3TB version of this back in late September (to replace a WD drive that failed on me) and it failed me last weekend. The drive is throwing errors all over the place. I thought this was the best of the bunch, but you can't trust any of them now. I doubt if this 2TB one will be any better. FTMFL.
I'm gonna put strychnine in their guacamole. There was salt on the glass, BIG grains of salt!
Bought this one but 3TB at the same price last time at Best Buy and Amazon.
I seem to find nothing but horror stories about external hard drives (especially these Seagate models, lately). Are there any reliable brands of external hard drives out there, or is it a better bet to just buy a quality internal hdd and throw it in an enclosure yourself? It seems like the drives meant to be external drives should intrinsically have better protection against shock (like when traveling) as compared to making your own with an internal drive. Thoughts, anybody?
@unsichtbaremann - mine sat on a shelf next to my TV and PC and was never moved since the day I installed it. There was no chance it suffered any damage due to bumps.
unsicht wrote :
" It seems like the drives meant to be external drives should intrinsically have better protection against shock (like when traveling) as compared to making your own with an internal drive."
No, not true, not one iota.
This FredFrugal real life report is quite disheartening...
@phred99: Looks like I'm just going to be building my own, then. I don't like the reviews of all of these pre-made external drives crapping out constantly. I'll just buy a good internal drive and a nice external enclosure...then baby it when I'm traveling.
Modern sleeve bearing (dynamic fluid bearing blah bleh blah) HDDs, turned off with parked heads, are reasonably shock protected, but like any precision instrument they can only take so much.
If you buy a quality internal drive and throw it in an enclosure, in "most" situations that's essentially the same thing as buying a ready made external, except the warranty period may differ, the external "may" come with backup software, some 3rd part external enclosures are lower quality than the OEMs, and usually cracking open an OEM to get the drive out voids the warranty... aside from the issue of which option costs less.
bought 5 these at staples @ $45 due to price mistake 3 weeks ago ... w00t w00t
they are nice
@rcatank: I got three
way to tell us...
Admin, off with these twos' heads (and accounts)