Re: Shopping for external harddrive
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: and other online reviews. But I also wanted to see if any of you folks have personal recommendations. I had an unpleasant experience with Maxtor/Seagate support this year. I had one of their OneTouch III's pack up after 6 mo, and the warranty replacement died out of the box. It took 69 days as well as dozens of phone calls + emails to get a replacement for the dead replacement. The overall failure rate of their products seems to be acceptable, but their support is just terrible. A. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Shopping for external harddrive
warranty replacement died out of the box. It took 69 days as well as dozens of phone calls + emails to get a replacement for the dead replacement. while i never had problems with warranty on hard drives (only internal but anyway), it always took 2-3 weeks. shop where i bought it handled it for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Shopping for external harddrive
Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'm looking to purchase a >= 1TB external harddrive, because I'm > running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience > with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands > compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to check CNet > and other online reviews. But I also wanted to see if any of you folks > have personal recommendations. > > Thanks, > Daniel > > I recently replaced my Lacie external hardrive (used for backup) with a WD MyBook. The Lacie was about two years old and the USB interface failed. The disk is still ok. I believe this came along as a result of faulty design decisions: - The disk was on and spinning all the time, no matter if accessed or not (it was only getting mounted for an hour or two a day) - There was not enough space in the box and around the disk, very bad cooling. The MyBook quickly spins down when not in use and runs very cool due to the case design. I expect it to last a lot longer. I believe these come in 1Tb models as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Shopping for external harddrive
On Tue 05 May 2009 at 07:44:06 PDT Manolis Kiagias wrote: I recently replaced my Lacie external hardrive (used for backup) with a WD MyBook. The Lacie was about two years old and the USB interface failed. The disk is still ok. I believe this came along as a result of faulty design decisions: - The disk was on and spinning all the time, no matter if accessed or not (it was only getting mounted for an hour or two a day) - There was not enough space in the box and around the disk, very bad cooling. I had the same problem with a 500GB LaCie external drive. The USB interface had been flaky for a while, and finally died one day when we had a windstorm and the power went out. I removed the drive from the housing and connected it directly via SATA, and it's been running like a champ ever since. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Shopping for external harddrive
Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking to purchase a >= 1TB external harddrive, because I'm running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to check CNet and other online reviews. But I also wanted to see if any of you folks have personal recommendations. 1TB samsung USB drive, use it for backups. The drive is an "ECO" version, spinning at 5400rpm. That keeps the temperature down. Works nicely. -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
