are external hdd's really that unreliable? I wanted to get some storage for my chinese cartoons and other stuff and I am uncertain which one to buy since all of them have some bad reviews saying that they break after some months
I was specifically looking at a 1tb WD Elements hdd and the toshiba canvio basics, are there better alternatives? I don't need a portable hdd, it's just that they are cheaper
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They're shit. Don't bother.
My experience with external sata adaptors, they are very unreliable. The harddrive is usually fine as long as you don't move it while it is turned on.
Just buy an internal drive. If you need portability, buy a hard drive enclosure and pop your drive in
I have a 1TB Toshiba external HDD that I've been knocking off my desk a couple times a month for the past 2 years and it still works fine.
> never had a problem with my three external drives for five years
Should I buy some lotto tickets?
They usually last between 3-10 years. It all depends on luck and how you treat them. I have an old laptop HDD in an enclosure that has over 3 years of run time, it's probably like 7 years old and it still works perfectly.
what's the alternative?
I don't really need portability, it will just lay on my desktop atm
>Just buy an internal drive. If you need portability, buy a hard drive enclosure and pop your drive in
good idea, but are internal hdd's really that much more reliable? if so, can you make some recommendations?
btw I have shitty old iMac, is there something I need to look out for? or can I just reformat it if it's the wrong one?
my external hdd:
> 1 x samsung (10yo) - working
> 1 x hitachi (9yo) - working
> 1 x samsung (6yo) - working
> 1 x hitachi (6yo) - working
> 1 x samsung (5yo) - working
> 1 x WD (2yo) - dead
Draw your own conclusions.
just fucking open your case and put a drive in it. it's not hard
how are portable SSDs cheaper? inside they still have a normal drive which they have to pay for. skip the middle-man and put your drive in yourself. HDDs are not supposed to be moved about
Ive been using a 2.5" western digital as an external drive for like 2 years now
Externals are really not that unreliable. I have a 4-year-old toshiba canvio 1.5TB drive that had a really faulty cable for like a year. I accidentally unplugged it countless times while it was spinning in 2015, and it still works fine now. I also got a Seagate backup plus drive (1TB) in around 2015 and that works fine too, though I haven't abused it nearly as much as the Toshiba.
I still play games off of them and download movies / porn to them all the time. They are always plugged in
>what's the alternative?
NAS, if you just need something stationary to have near your desk. External drives is fine if you don't move them around while turned on. And even if you do have "reliable" drives, always have backups. Doesn't matter if you have deathstars or the worlds most reliable HDD. Important data should be backed up.
WD has 100% failure rate.
Why would external HDDs be less reliable than internal HDDs? Is there an actual technical reason or is it just that they are subject to more wear and tear?
Bare NAS drive or don't even bother. Buy your own enclosure or NAS server to shove it in.
My bro bought a 8 TB external drive "on sale" and it started fucking up almost immediately. They shove cheap junk in those external drive boxes.
I have a Seagate and a Touro (Hitachi inside) and both have been working fine for the past couple years. That said, they're usually cheap junk and it would be more worth your time to buy a decent quality 2.5" drive and put it in an enclosure yourself.
>NAS
are you sure? they are more expensive and they seem to be for other purposes than saving some cartoons and javs
wouldn't a WD blue for example be enough? or are they really that shitty?
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As long as it's a bare drive it's prob. ok.
I have a 5 yr old 1tb WD that's still working, so I guess it's just luck
I don't know if I'm just unlucky or what, but years back I bought a USB external enclosure where I could just put IDE harddrives into it willy-nilly and would keep it running 24/7 as backup and saving torrented files to and the harddrives would just DIE in less than two weeks, just stop functioning altogether with clicking and all that.
These were all old, used harddrives, so they weren't long for this world anyways, but I managed to kill THREE of these used harddrives really fast before I decided enough was enough and stopped using it.
It's a really nice enclosure too. Metal casing with a case fan inside to keep the harddrive cool. It's this one in my uploaded picture exactly, except black. Galaxy Metal Gear enclosure.
so doesn't matter if it's sata or 2,5"?
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there is also the seagate barracuda or what it's called but there are not many reviews and not few of them were bad, so I didn't bother to list it
which can you guys recommend me for a taiwanese cartoon/jav storage device? I just want to buy one of those plastic cases for it and use it as a storage device, in the future I may use it in a thinkpad I am going to buy
People recommend NAS drives because they're designed to always run and take a shit/ton of read/write speeds. If you're setting up a server or seedbox, it would be a good idea to go with a NAS drive.
I personally use a 3.5" 2TB WD Blue in an external enclosure for storing my media.
SATA is the connection type, both 2.5" and 3.5" drives have SATA connectors. If I were you I would buy a 1TB or more 3.5" hard drive for storage and an SSD for the thinkpad.
I know SATA is the connection type, I meant whether it it matters if it's sata or nas or sas or whatever and if 2,5" vs 3,5" matters
>If I were you I would buy a 1TB or more 3.5" hard drive for storage and an SSD for the thinkpad.
why 3,5" tho? are they more reliable? writing/reading speeds don't matter to me btw
I am asking because cases for 3,5" drives are double or triple the price of a 2,5" case/enclosure...probably because it comes with a power brick?
Once you go over 1TB, 3.5" drives become cheaper per GB. The cases are a more expensive, but you save money overall. If you just want 1TB of storage, 2.5" will work fine and be cheaper. 2TB and up it's best to get a 3.5".
Okay thanks, 1tb is enough for me, so 2,5" will be fine
should I get a hitachi then? only heard good things about them
Still got a WD My Book from like 2007/8. Still works, but 3.5 HDD has been replaced a few different times. Also have a few WD 500GB and 1TB 2.5 HDDs that are still working but I hate them because the USB ports are on the HDDs them self. They range from being 3 to 5 years old.
But I'm thinking of getting rid of the 2.5s because when they die I just cant replace the drive. I'm thinking about getting a 2 bay NAS.
get one of those ones that have their own power plug in and a lan connection, and hook it up to your router
That's literally everything, including you.
you have any extra drives sitting aroung? if yes then you can get a decent diskless enclosure for around a hundred u.s. otherewise refer to as those basically amount to a nas and can be had for around 90 u.s. for a one terrorbite one if you're willing to go refurbished. look at wd mybooks
I had 1x WD 500GB, 2x 4 TB Seagate and 1x 1 TB Seagate. All of them are working 24/7 as I am torrent maniac and I use them for seeding. I think oldest one is 4 y/o, never had any problems with them so far.
I managed to "kill" a large 1tb seagate by dropping it when it was on. Though in reality it still works, it just keeps clicking if I have the hdd oriented flat.
So far not managed to kill any of my smaller portable hdd's despite occasionally bumping into them.