Externa hard drive just died, reccomend a replacement

[ELIMINATOR]

The dead one is a Buffalo, so i won't be buying one of those again. It was one terrabyte, which was hardly dented. Just over 2 years old, I'd have thought it should have lasted years?

Not after portability, it will stay plugged into the pc.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Or are they all much of a muchness?

 

[Timolgra]

Can't remember the make of mine but it's water and shock proof usb powered 500gb and no problems.

Also have an ancient mains powered one that's still ok

My son had a 1TB hard drive that was almost full of films etc and that failed losing the lot

I'd be inclined to have 2 smaller ones if you don't use the capacity as a back up if the contents important

 

[Paul G (BHT)]

Here you go

Been running these for quite a while now with no issues.

As Tim says, get two is you want redundancy/failover

 

[cookie]

Or are they all much of a muchness?

IME external disc drives fail fairly often, though it is usually the enclosure electronics at fault. remove the drive and put it in another case (cheap at computer stores), and it may well live again.

currently running 3 x 2TB Samsung Story drives. must be 2/3 years old now. i think that may be a record.
samsung is also the only HDD i've never had fail. the worst: western digital.

edit: just seen BHT's post above