Storage Solutions External Storage Drive buy help needed.


princeoo7

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I am planing to get 1 or 2 external drives.
Need one for software and projects and other for personal files.
Should I get one big drive and divide it or get 2 seprate drives ?
I don't have Study material :p also no movies will be stored on this.

What should I get and how much of a capacity for a long life drive.
 

booo

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the keyword is MTBF (mean time between failure) usually enterprise class drives have higher mtbf.

if the scenario is write once read many, smr drives are okay as they will be cheaper.
 

nRiTeCh

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princeoo7 said:
I am planing to get 1 or 2 external drives.
Need one for software and projects and other for personal files.
Should I get one big drive and divide it or get 2 seprate drives ?
I don't have Study material :p also no movies will be stored on this.

What should I get and how much of a capacity for a long life drive.
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Get 2 drives or 3 if you can. I would say 1 x 3 tb. I would had got all 3 of different brands.
 

princeoo7

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nRiTeCh said:
Get 2 drives or 3 if you can. I would say 1 x 3 tb. I would had got all 3 of different brands.
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Which model would you suggest and of what capacity ?
 

rpalpha

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nRiTeCh said:
I would go with wd blue which have served me very well along with Toshiba.

Costly affair not for every pocket.
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Not if you build it yourself. WIll require some investment in the form of time but the end product feels good
 

princeoo7

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nRiTeCh said:
I would go with wd blue which have served me very well along with Toshiba.

Costly affair not for every pocket.
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My Passport™ Ultra or My Passport™ series would you recommend ?​

 

nRiTeCh

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princeoo7 said:

My Passport™ Ultra or My Passport™ series would you recommend ?​

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Except for size, design and usb interface there isn't much of a diff. between these two so choose any.
I would actually recommended (I personally prefer) a mix of 2 internals + 1 external.
Samsung and Adata are also good.
If you budget permits then lookout for an ssd.
 

princeoo7

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nRiTeCh said:
Except for size, design and usb interface there isn't much of a diff. between these two so choose any.
I would actually recommended (I personally prefer) a mix of 2 internals + 1 external.
Samsung and Adata are also good.
If you budget permits then lookout for an ssd.
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I already have internal drive. Need external for extra copy. Ssd is like 7k+ for 1tb.
 

chetansha

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Look for wd essential drive series. Even if usb port gets damaged, you can remove hdd from casing and retrieve data. This is not possible with other wd series
 
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