 Lena Antaramian |
External storage device Hello all, Do you guys have any recommendations for external storage devices? I need to buy one but there are so many choices out there? I am looking for something around 500 G. Thanks!
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Jessica Jenney |
Try Western Digital products. They have a variety of external hard drives!
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Jessica Jenney |
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Lena, Storage space has become so inexpensive these days and there are lots of options. I have (2) 750GB Iomega mini-mac hard drives that are stackable & provide additional firewire & USB ports. Since I do not truct any hard drive, I back up everything to another hard drive and then I still burn a DVD of the raw files and keep the DVDs at a friends house - in case of fire or destruction of my home. I have lost photos due to hard drive failure (on an older Seagate) and will never get those images back because I didn't have backups for them. Iomega are selling 1TB HDs for about $140 (this is just like the 750GB ones I have and I am very happy with mine) - http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-MiniMax-Hard-Drive-FireWire/dp/B0019C4OLY/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1241648625&sr=8-22 Whether you opt for 500GB or 1TB HDs - get 2 so that you can keep your files backed to on seperate drives. Carlton
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Kevin Kopchynski |
Hi Lena, I have bought and used a variety of these over the years. The major brands are all good, except I will share one bad experiece with Lacie. If they are still making the upright aluminum models, pass on it. They have bad soldering on the inner connections. Also they had bad power supplies. They are now nice bookends, but useless as drives. Their dark, low, Porche model seems better. I have a couple of those also. (I run the computer operations at a boarding school, I have seen a little bit of many things.) If you are handy you can get an internal hard drive and an enclosure and assemble your own. Then, if you outgrow the drive or it breaks you just but a new drive and plug it in. You can save some money this way, but if you shop you might find ready-to-use units on sale at a similar price to the build-your-own. You don't say if this drive is for a copy of what is on your internal drive, or if it is to expand your capacity for files. If the latter, do heed Carlton's advice to have 2 or 3 copies of your work stored away even if it means getting a couple of external drives. No means of storage is 100% reliable. Good luck,
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Monnie Ryan |
I've got several external storage devices, but the two I like best both are from Western Digital. For home, it's a 500G "My Book" -- 1T models are quite reasonably priced now (I'm planning to get one ASAP). For travel, I like the 3208A (mine is 250GB, but there are newer ones out there now; it's about the size of one hand). It's highly portable, so I just download photos right from the notebook while I'm on the road and then plug the drive into the PC when I'm home again. Do shop around; you can find some great deals online with free shipping and no sales tax. For extended trips, I also cart along a portable DVD maker so I can make DVDs on the spot for even more image protection. --Monnie
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Bob Cammarata |
For dependable (and cheap) storage, my Iomega 500 GB Desktop Hard Drive stores large raw and TIFF files out of my camera, as well as smaller processed photos. I systematically back up groups of my originals by burning them onto DVD's. These discs are then stored in sequence numerically right here in my home (....since I'm not likely to be worried too much about a bunch of pictures if my house ever burns down).
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Nadja Meta |
I'm also looking at buying a Western Digital 1TB after reading good reviews. They say that it doesn't get too hot - which currently seems to make my HDD freak out despite an A/C cooled room. That may be something you would also like to look out for before buying a product.
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