It's mainly for secondary backup of my pictures. What brand would be great and what brand should I stay away from? I already have one WD. Now considering Seagate. Many thanks.
slclick said:Do you have any high capacity HDD's laying around? Enclosures are a great way to make an EHD on the cheap. Hell that's all they are, HDD's in a case.
sjschall said:Ha, I usually stay away from WD and Seagate, but everyone has their own opinion. I have had great luck with LaCie.
sagittariansrock said:sjschall said:Ha, I usually stay away from WD and Seagate, but everyone has their own opinion. I have had great luck with LaCie.
All brands of hard disk can fail, and I say that even though so far I've had no issue with my Seagates yet. The key is keeping multiple backups.
dcm said:Multiple drives, multiple locations - even when traveling. In addition to my current working copy, I have 2 complete backups (one 2.5" USB3.0, one 3.5" SATA drive that are updated when I download from camera or weekly) in a firesafe, and another 2.5" USB3.0 I store offsite and update monthly. All this times 2 since I have a different sets for different purposes.
The 2.5" backup travels with my so I can download to it on the road from my laptop. I also download to my Ipad and let it upload to a PhotoStream on the road when I've got a WiFi connection for my offsite backup.
I retire my drives every 2-3 years and start with a fresh set. I keep the old ones around for archive, just in case. I store them offsite with other family members.
The only failures I've had were not the drive mechanism itself, but the cheap USB interface card (Seagate and WD, 2.5" and 3.5"). In both cases I was able to remove the hard drive from the enclosure and plug it into a SATA enclosure with no problems or lost data. After that I began buying enclosures and drives separately. I'm currently using a Thunderbolt enclosure on my Mac - noticeably faster than USB3 and FireWire.