Mark, I have a hodgepodge of 2T drives bought as bare drives - Hitachi, Seagate, and Western Digital. All have been working very well with no problems at all. Most of the drives in the $100-250 price class from major vendors are so close in reliability, speed, durability, etc, it's a toss up.
I use the Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.0 & 2.0/FireWire 800/eSATA enclosures available from Other World Computing. They're fast, easy to work with, reasonably priced, and very reliable. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB Godfrey > On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > > I'm currently housing my digital images on a couple of external hard drives. > They are filling up and its getting to be time to upgrade. Are there any > particular brands to look for or avoid? > > I am thinking of getting a couple of 4TB drives, to replace a couple of 3TB > drives currently in use. I'm currently using two pair of drives with a 3TB > and 2TB in each pair. Moving from a 3+2 setup to a 4+3 setup will net an > additional 2TB of storage, which should last for a couple years or so. > > I Googled on this and Hitachi came up as making reliable drives. A quick > search on Amazon did not reveal any Hitachi drives in enclosures, but I > assume I could buy an enclosure that would support them. > > Any suggestions? > > Mark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
