Hi everyone
I want to buy an external hard drive to back up photos, and wondering what the pros and cons are. What features should I look for?
Many thanks.
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MOBILE: Huawei P30
OTHER: Thinkpad E14 + Asus Vivobook + Intel NUC5i3 + A family of Raspberry Pi x 9 + Amazon Echo
silverbirch: I see DSE also have a WD 1 Tb for $98 - I might as well have the extra capacity. I'll only be backing up files, mainly photos.
blakamin:silverbirch: I see DSE also have a WD 1 Tb for $98 - I might as well have the extra capacity. I'll only be backing up files, mainly photos.
I have one of these and it's brilliant
timmmay: I've found WD and Seagate both totally reliable for internal drives, no idea about their enclosure quality though. If an external drives fails the first thing you do is crack it open and take the drive out, put it directly into a PC.
USB 2.0 is pretty slow. You might be able to watch a movie off it, maybe, but backing up large amounts of data is slow. eSata is faster, if your PC can do it, and USB 3.0 is fast top.
500GB is pretty small now, unless it's a 2.5" drive that doesn't need a power supply. Though saying that I have an 80GB one I still use.
My backups are 2x2TB offsite, plus 1x2TB of the most important stuff to a second offsite location, and Mozy backing up the critical data files. I don't back up images to Mozy, since I have 1.5TB of them and it's not practical yet.
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