3TB external storage for $70USD

>3TB external storage for $70USD
Hot da-
>Seagate
Anybody can actually vouch for this? I'd like to have it my animes and bring to work without getting the laptop out but my history with seagate has always been me refunding busted hard drives.

I've had a bad history with Seagate. I'm still mourning some of those files...

>desktop class disk
>in a enclosure with zero ventilation

I bought one about 4 months ago and it starting having audible ticking inside. Its a 4TB though. Im already looking for alt ext drives.

Ditto. Never again.

consider the following
why are only seagate hdds on sale?

Ive never had a problem with seagate, i have a 2TB external that i got two and a half years ago and its totally fine

> Seagate

not even once.

I had 4 SG HDD's die on me in the past.

Every time I purchase something I always find Sup Forums talking shit about it.

>Have WD and seagate drives
>Only my WD's have ever epic-ally died leaving no chance of recovery.

>Somehow seagate meme still exists
>even years after the faulty models had long gone.


HURR DRRR
fuck off WD shills

theres a reason they are so cheap
you get what you pay for

just grab a trusted WD

>mfw people actually still buy seagay after the 7200.11 fiasco
kek you lose your money AND your files

mwf i still have WD HDD from 2008 that i still use twice a week

mfw seagates die after a year or two

seagates useally die right when the warrenty ends too

> tfw my HDD firmware crapped out after 4+ years of use and took all my chinese cartoons with it.

I should've replaced that POS drive when I had the chance.

This is so true, fuck seagate

Use redundancy.
Use redundancy.
Use redundancy.

They are fine as a backup, but get a NAS drive for anything you intended to access constantly.

>Not shilling out for the extra cash and buying a NAS

who here shills wd?
the only good thing is HGST

>buhu it didn´t break for me so it totally is not a thing and g is shilling totally

The only sensible option is to run ZFS.
Fuck this firmware shit.

if you have the spare change just buy it as your second/third wheel.

I have the 4tb works fine. I'm gonna gut it and make it internal soon and shove my old 2tb in.

I'd rather buy a refurbished ultrastar at that price point

Every manufacturer had failed HDD.

Though Seagate had more than others it doesn't really matter, you need to protect your data with redundancy rather than by relying on that one disk to never fail.

My Seagate has lasted me since high school with close to 2 tb on it for most of it's life, and being online quite often. I've seemingly been spared the reliability issues some have.

HOWEVER

For a long period, a couple years, the drive would frequently click throughout the day. This is a common issue with Seagate drives and can be quite annoying. It seems to have subsided over the last 2-3 years, now it only does it rarely, usually when the computer itself is dealing with large memory or CPU usage. Accessing a very large folder on the drive after some time can also cause clicks.

In addition, the program for my external drive was absolute garbage. It would do things like leaving empty folders with random number and letter names. I managed to make this stop by just deleting the software and using the drive like a large USB stick.

Ultimately it's most likely chink garbage, but that price makes it tolerable. I got my drive for a similar deal via sales and coupons. Don't try to run games or big programs off of it, it will most likely stutter.

4tb is a much better deal

>mfw using a 9 year old Seagate drive
>mfw it gave me errors a few months ago and didn't wanted to be detected, but seems to be doing fine after a pass of HDD Regenerator

It's a backup drive for your desktop. You should use it once a day at most and it should last years unless you get a defective one. Even if it breaks, you should still have your main drive with all your data. Get a blu-ray burner, external so you can use it with laptops, and go wild with offsite backups.

Nah man. Do yourself a favor and stay away from Seagate.

Aye, I'm a Toshiba man myself. Have a 6tb running happily since November 2015.
I'm never trusting Seagate.

I got a 3tb WD My Book external HDD for $99 on Amazon

How are Toshiba externals?

They're alright. They use some parts from HGST irrc so that's a plus. They don't have the factories to build everything. I think they're selling off that division now soon as well.