Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Wright
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 replac

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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 f

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
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 c

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Charlie Kester
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: -

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
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 C