I had a western digital that lasted 10 years, I only replaced it because it was only 20gb. It had been sitting in the trunk of my car for about a year before I pulled it out from all the junk to get some of my old crappy art institute work off it. Still booted up just fine. I now have a 350g internal and a 250g portable.…
Back your stuff up on every hard drive you own. Have two in your computer? or have two computers? put it on both...Back your main work pieces up on your web server if you own a website. Then put stuff on your portable hard drive. Having all your stuff in just one location is asking for it...I don't know how you would sleep…
well, most of my shit is on my mybook (haven't had an issue yet, and I've had it for a while. . .) I've got what I can fit, backed up on my internal drive (but I think that one might be going) So if WD is crap, what's the good brand these days? For a long time all I'd ever used was Maxtor, without a problem, but everyone…
I had a catastrophic drive failure about 12 years ago, and still won't buy Maxtor hard drives. Hate hate hate. Anyway, rather than just archive via my own hard disks or DVD-R, I pay about $12/month for a web host with 500gb of space and also back up everything there. They make weekly backups, and store their backups…
i never have had a problem with a HD. I use WD since too many years, and i have some very very old WD external drives; they run as the first day :D A hard drive is sopposed to be static, if you move your HD you can have serious problems. Vibration is letal, so if you use external drives, plug them to your computer and…
From personal experience, the USB hard drives that use full sized desktop HDD's fail waaaaaaay more than the ones that use the smaller laptop sized HDD's. Over the past year I have been doing multiple (and I do mean multiple...) backups of data from servers to a portable storage for usage and archival. Of the drives we…