Terrabyte drives.... Which brand is the best?

[Mark42]

The prices of Terrabyte size drives is getting so low I'm going to buy two. One for the source, and one for a backup. Western Digital has been a good performer in the past, and has a nice drive in a case with USB interface, power supply and backup software.

I have started recording family video on SD chips at 1080p (16 gig SD chip holds 240 minutes of 1080 video) and need a large store to keep the files permanently in their original format. Right now burning a 1080p on a DVD means reducing the quality to 720. And I'm not going to invest in Blue Ray burners at this time. Will see what is the best format in a few years....

So any recommendations on Terebyte drives?

Thanks,

Mark

 

[MTboatguy]

Re: Terrabyte drives.... Which brand is the best?

Mark,

I have had real poor luck with Western digital the last couple of years, so I switch over to Segates and have been quite pleased, I used WD for many years, but it seems as if their quality control has dropped the last couple of years, more failures for me..

 

[scipper77]

Re: Terrabyte drives.... Which brand is the best?

Slight tangent but I'm not sure blu-ray will be around for very long. It seems anything with a disk is not long for this world. With streaming video and ssd drives and what not. I guess people will always need to store there data somehow though.

 

[lakelover]

Re: Terrabyte drives.... Which brand is the best?

I have a WD 1 TB external HD that I've been using since October and so far it has been working well. I regularly back up to it several times per week, copying files, no backup utility. I hope it holds out because I have to get a new computer in a couple weeks and will need to transfer a lot of data.

I did a fair amount of research before buying it and finally decided that it was about the best buy for the money I could spend. I was aware that a large number of the negative reviews on Amazon were for DOA or early failure, so I do my best to keep data in at least two places.

Mine is a WDBAAU0010HBK-NESN and on Amazon, it has 4.5 stars out of 878 reviews.

 

[rogerwa]

Re: Terrabyte drives.... Which brand is the best?

Do some reasearch on newegg. Read the comments. I have found them to be pretty accurate..