seagate external hard drives

seagate external hard drives

Are seagate still a good brand?Narrowed it down to a seagate external or a western digital mybook.Im only using it for films and music not anything confidential or anything

i had a seagate external hd, lasted 7 months. lost roughly about 300gb of trance. due to motor faiulure

would not buy 1 ever again

I noticed a few reviews of people saying they didnt have them long and it started clicking and losing files.

They aren't water resistant

my 250gb one is spot on - quiet, compact and fast considering it's only power source is USB

Exactly what happened with mine.

If anything buy 2, and back the other one up just to be on the extra safe side.
Expensive, but you wont be on the verge of hanging yourself like i nearly did.

does this resemble the hdd you're talking about? http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...BwQzAMwAA&cid=11261755115638409909&sa=image#p

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=seagate+1tb&cid=17612363463222474394&sa=title#p this is the one i was looking at so the same but 1TB

Has anyone used a western digital mybook then?

I've not used a mybook but can't see it being crap. I've got a 750 gig internal WD drive in an external enclosure and have had no problems at all with it.

I've got a 1tb western digital it's spot on but it should be considering I've only had it a month.

The casing on mine was actually a maxtor box.
but once opened up it was a 500gb seagate drive. ( i later found out seagate bought maxtor out, or vice versa )

samsung, and WD have always had good reviews

Think im going to go with the 1tb western digital, reassuringly expensive lol