Anything Better Than This Verses Price?

[Judaeus Apella]

First of all, is there a hardware site that lets consumers/users rate drives? Maybe one that's also a review site? (I'm not talking about online stores with customer reviews)

Anyone know of a drive that is slightly better than this in terms of catch, and maybe seek/write time, for just a little more cash? :confused:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098

I'm not finding much. 8mb is a little low for my taste.... but I don't see anything else available, especially with such a good reputation. It seems as though this drive has a very good reputation, by looking at the newegg reviews

Don't worry, I know most of the people scorring newegg products are idiots who have no idea what they're doing, but I'm just paying attention to how many reviews complain about failing drives versus the rest.

If this isn't that great of a drive, then PLEASE tell me. I'm looking for something very reliable so I don't loose my photography. If this isn't that great, do you guys know of a better one? An expensive drive unfortunately isn't in my budget. Besides, this is just for storage, so incredible performance isn't that big of a deal. Above averge to good performance is fine.

[perkam]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319

Perkam

[Judaeus Apella]

I'm sure a lot of people will shake their head at what I'm about to say, but I'm trying to stay away from anything bigger than about 400. The reason why is I don't want to rely on one big drive. If that fails, then I loose a LOT of stuff. And if it starts to die, I'll have so much stuff on it, I probably won't be able to get much of it back before it dies completely. I just don't trust hard drives. I'd rather have a bunch of 320's so I don't loose as much if one of them dies.

Isn't there anything with a bigger catch that is around 320 to 400? That won't cost too much? Say around $50 to $70?

[Serra]

I... don't quite get it.

So, you would buy multiple 320GB drives to guard against failure of one drive.
And you would not buy 1 640GB+ drive because you would lose too much if it died.

Why not have the best of both worlds and get 2x 640GB+ drives and use one to back up the other?

If it's a budget issue I can understand, but I need that clarified first. Large drives for storage and backup is much more elegant and efficient than multiple small drives that you expect to run out of space on.

[Humminn55]

Not to mention a lot less heat generated by fewer drives packed into a small space.

BTW, OP, not to nitpick, but the word is cache, not catch.

[Judaeus Apella]

I'm on a tight budget

[little_scrapper]

Use a "shelfed" bachup HD, as well as redundant internal HDs. I have "ALL" my data backed up to a 1TB internal HD. I also have "ALL" my data on my primary internal drive. I also have all my data on 2 different drives that are on my closet shelf in case of a catastrophic meltdown. Anything short of a total fire melting the whoole house, I am good to go. If you need more protection than that, well.. then you need online backup services.

I subscribe to the group that feels that less HDD's = less chance of lose due to failure. Dont F#%k around. Get onboard with multiple redundant backups and keep them current with no less then monthly backups (4 me it pictures of my kids doing cute stuff) That is the only way I can keep momma satisfied that even if lightening melts the whole damn box, the pictures of her babies are safe!! Trust me, if I lost the picture of our kids 1st birthday party... she would want to castrate me!!

[Judaeus Apella]

I'm on a tight budget


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[chinaguy]

The failure rates of a new series of hard drive is about the same for 320-1TB, a few .0000002 maybe. If you want something 'more reliable' then WD Black they do a WD RED series which is about as good as they get. These REDs are built for commersial allications and have a higher testing level.

As sais you should always back up your Data onto a number of different HD. My music and photo collection are stored on two different HD on two different PCs, backed up onto 3 x external HD (1 x Esata drive, 1xUSB Drive and 1 NAT Drive)and then burnt to DVD every year.

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