m-jeri
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Get the 2TB Seagte LP ones only. nothing else.
Get the 2TB Seagte LP ones only. nothing else.
@Mech. If you are buying a new one, my advice would be to buy the enclosure and the hard drive separately. The molded external drives sold by big companies are a scam. The manufacturers use lower quality components and the warranty periods are are lesser (1/2 year for external drives vs 3/5 years for internal). In case of failure the warranty becomes void if you open the case. You can't recover data even if only the USB electronics dies.
For my home I buy 1TB WD Caviar greens (got 7 of them). They are cheap (~2700) and do the job as data dumps.
Besides, if you have just one copy of your data, you are walking on thin ice.
Edit:
Western Digital does not even publish the detailed specification sheet for the external drives. You have very little idea of the quality of hardware. You can get the drive specs for internal drives from
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another point is external hdd that are coming with 3 years warranty that is true.. but WD have been giving 3 years since ages.. its just seagate started now...
however the casing you buy have a warranty of only 6 months and cheap chinese make
Here is the warranty data of top 5 external drives (taken from Amazon):
Western Digital WD Elements 1 TB - 1 Year
Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB - 2 year
Seagate Expansion 500 GB - 2 year
Toshiba Canvio Plus 320 - N/A
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB - 2 years
I am not sure if they offer better warranty in India. I would be really surprised if you got a 3 year warranty on an external drive in India. The shop attendants in Croma say it is one year. Never verified it with the WD or Seagate.
Agreed. May be it is just me, but I am worried more about data/drive than the case. Buying an internal drive gives me longer warranty. Not to mention the ability to plug it into a SATA port without voiding warranty.
In any case, I can't reemphasize the importance of keeping redundant copies of data. Having just one copy, no matter how good the hard drive is, is a bad idea.