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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: jbell on September 28, 2010, 08:30:05 AM
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My seagate is filling up and I need to grab a new one. I am looking for 1-2TB external and I have liked the Seagate I currently use. Thought I would see what others have used with success. Thanks
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My seagate is filling up and I need to grab a new one. I am looking for 1-2TB external and I have liked the Seagate I currently use. Thought I would see what others have used with success. Thanks
No idea about reliability, but Best Buy had 2TB on sale for about $140 this past weekend in their flyer.
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I prefer to buy internals and put them in a enclosure. especially if your computer supports esata! much faster than usb. I have one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
in one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042
and love it. I've had two of these enclosures for a few years now and no problems at all.
I used to swear by seagates but it seems they are slipping these days. that said I have 4 internals and one external seagate and no problems thus far. the actual external gets way too hot for my liking though.
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I also have started going the internals-in-enclosure route. This 2-drive enclosure works great, although it's not cheap:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392024
Toss in two drives and set it to either RAID 0, RAID 1, or JBOD and you're cruising. Silicon Image's Steelvine Manager (http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=103&cat=24) works great for monitoring the drives.
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I got a 1TB Iomega a little while ago which I heard has seagate drive in it. I'm liking it so far and it has about 9 months on it. fwiw It was just under 100 w/shipping