Suggest me a good brand for external hard drive

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Hi,

I am interested in buying a 500 GB an external hard drive for my laptop. Which brand I should go for? Thanks.

You buying it for laptop/ for storage?
IMO, Seagate is the best.
 
Seagate / Western DigitalBoth are good brands. But remember HDDs are not reliable even for a second. You copy your precious DATA today, and next day when you want to access HDD, you will see HDD is already dead. Data Recovery charges are much higher than buying 3 or 4 HDDs. So always backup your priceless data on two or more HDDs. (I am not talking about your 1080i/p collection of movies)
 
Will recommend WD , seagate gets more hot thn the WD. What about the internal storage you have? U can either use the internal one as external. Buy a case for it (150-300 rupees) and buy a new WD green HDD for internal 🙂 . Just a option from my side.
 
I have many documents, which i've stored in my computer. it's around several GBs. I do want to buy an external USB HDD. Probably will buy 1 HDDs of 1TB/500GB will do, because the other copy of it will be in the computer. The possibility of both going wrong on the same time is less/near to zero.Any suggestions upon this?
 

So always backup your priceless data on two or more HDDs. (I am not talking about your 1080i/p collection of movies)
LOL..😛
 
How reliable and safe is Google Drive?

prolly more reliable than physical media in your own home? keep multiple copies on multiple servers if you are that paranoid.

i am not a fan of relying on physical media at home for important data. i have suffered an office fire that destroyed one computer. shit can happen.
 
prolly more reliable than physical media in your own home? keep multiple copies on multiple servers if you are that paranoid.

i am not a fan of relying on physical media at home for important data. i have suffered an office fire that destroyed one computer. shit can happen.
OK, but the data is verymuch. I'll have to change to a broadband supporting high upload speeds. Thanks for the information.
 
patience. i mean. you do not have to do it in a short period of time right? how much stuff are we talking about here? i was able to upload 50GB data on google drive in less than a month with 800kbps upload speeds. and this was not running it 24x7. 🙂
 
i was able to upload 50GB data on google drive in less than a month with 800kbps upload speeds. and this was not running it 24x7. 🙂

Hmmm... so you have two accounts. Because what i heard that the max capacity per account is 25GB at 2.5$/month .
 
i have a paid account on google. 20 dollars 80GB per year. and google offer storage in terabytes if you are willing to pay for it. these are the current prices (per month):25 GB - $2.49100 GB - $4.99200 GB - $9.99400 GB - $19.991 TB - $49.992 TB - $99.994 TB - $199.998 TB - $399.9916 TB - $799.99if your requirement is less than 25GB, skydrive would have worked for you but i guess you won't have an active account so you would be stuck with 7GB storage.
 
Sometimes DVDs are better than External hard drives. I have lost some valuable code which I carried over the years from 2004-2007 and stupidly never uploaded it (it was close to 2-3 GB). I think online backup is lot better.Personally I prefer WD to Seagate, saw lots of problems with seagate HDD my brother had.
 

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