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Kitsune · 02-02-2004, 11:23 AM

Any recommendations out there on which hard drive manufacturers to go for and which ones to avoid?

I've had better luck with WD, but I tend to think they all kind of suck since everyone is on a "big drive for cheap" kick right now. Since they are so cheap, though, I've taken to not purchasing the biggest drive I can afford and picking up two equally sized drives, instead. I throw one in the PC and the other in an external, firewire case. Every week I flip on the external, run a backup to it, then switch it off. I figure that with the current quality of drives that is better to have a good backup than more space.

And speaking of media quality, I've found that backing up to CD-Rs is a bad idea right now. None of mine have lasted over three months -- they all suffer from "CD rot".

02-02-2004, 11:23 AM	#6
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	Any recommendations out there on which hard drive manufacturers to go for and which ones to avoid? I've had better luck with WD, but I tend to think they all kind of suck since everyone is on a "big drive for cheap" kick right now. Since they are so cheap, though, I've taken to not purchasing the biggest drive I can afford and picking up two equally sized drives, instead. I throw one in the PC and the other in an external, firewire case. Every week I flip on the external, run a backup to it, then switch it off. I figure that with the current quality of drives that is better to have a good backup than more space. And speaking of media quality, I've found that backing up to CD-Rs is a bad idea right now. None of mine have lasted over three months -- they all suffer from "CD rot".