Re: External Hard Drive Suggestions

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:55:46 -0800

I also have used various WD external drives with no issues. The only problem with all these external drives is not whether the drive will fail, but when. That's why a lot of folks are opting for RAID and mirror drive setups. If you're putting stuff worth keeping on a drive then you need to be backing up or doing something else to make sure there is another copy. I use four external drives and rotate them once a quarter to back up several machines. So I'm replacing a drive either in the backups or the source machines about once a year on average because with about 10 drives in play, the odds are I'll have a failure and just need to expect that. Not that big a deal when it's a backup drive since it can be reproduced in the next backup run but failure on one of the machine means a whole restore process. With a RAID I could avoid all that, but so far I haven't gotten around to it. 

CB

On 11/3/13 5:05 PM, Kjsc Radio wrote:
I would recommend a Western Digital my book external hard drive. I have mine for almost 3 to 4 years, and I never had a problem with it. 

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On 3 Nov 2013, at 7:43 am, "Jesus Garcia" <jesusga...@gmail.com <mailto:jesusga...@gmail.com>> wrote: 


See below.
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Does someone have a link for the 2TB USB 3.0 powered drive mentioned in this conversation? I can't seem to find it. 

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On Nov 2, 2013, at 8:15 PM, "Brian Fischler" <blindga...@gmail.com <mailto:blindga...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks I was looking at those. Just wanted to see what the consensus is as I don't want to go through what I went through with the lemon of a seagate I got. And since on the Amazon reviews it seems like I wasn't alone in not being able to get my seagate to mount. I guess they are so cheap since they don't work On Nov 2, 2013, at 7:45 PM, Jesus Garcia <jesusga...@gmail.com <mailto:jesusga...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Oops my bad sorry not 2 gigs 2 tera man remember I come from the dark ages 

    when 16 K was a big deal. Also, I forgot to mention these drives
    are USB

    powered so you do not need a external power supply.

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    [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr

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    Subject: Re: External Hard Drive Suggestions

    Gee, only 2 gigs?

    Seems a trifle small to me.

    Id' want something like at least four teribytes.

    Oh, it must have a rotating speed of 72000.

    Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for
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    Sincerely,

    The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone
    5 user!

    On Nov 2, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Jesus Garcia <jesusga...@gmail.com
    <mailto:jesusga...@gmail.com>> wrote:

        Try the pass port family, I just purchased one 2 gigs from
        western digital

        if memory serves me right it was around $149.00 It supports
        USB 3.0, but

    not

        thunderbolt still plenty fast and not a major costly drive.
        It comes with

        software for both windows and Mac though I have never used
        the software I

        run time machine. They have smaller sizes if 2 gig is more
        then you want.

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        [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian
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        Subject: External Hard Drive Suggestions

        Hey all,

        I know we covered this awhile back but amazingly I couldn't
        find the

    thread.

        I am finally getting around to getting a external hard drive
        as the last

    one

        I got wouldn't mount properly so I had to return it. I had
        gotten a

    seagate

        but with all the issues I had with it, I don't think I want
        to try and get

        another seagate. Can anyone suggest one they have had success
        with for the

        mac. I plan to use it as external storage for music and
        backups along with

    a

        partition for time machine. Thanks,
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