What?s the best external hard drive for back-ups?
I have a Powerbook G4 and would like to buy an external hard drive for back-up purposes. It seems impossible to choose one because drives made by every company occasionally fail and only then do people write reviews on them. Every time I hear that LaCie, Maxtor and Seagate make the best hard drives, an equal amount of people say they suck and fail on a regular basis.
My question is:
Who makes a good, most consistently reliable hard drive that I can easily do back-ups with?
My question is:
Who makes a good, most consistently reliable hard drive that I can easily do back-ups with?
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Everyone's experience is different, so unfortunately you'll just have to choose one and see if it works for you. Personally, I've had no trouble with LaCie drives, but I keep backups around just in case!
Someone told me once to make sure you get a good chipset if you go firewire, I have yet to understand what they meant but hopefully someone will explain it before you make your purchase.
but if it crashes .... everything is gone.
so the best thing is a firewire RAID 1 like this
http://www.cooldrives.com/usb2-sata-...sata-raid.html
Its not the most attractive thing in the world – but it does the job.
If you are in the market for one - the two features I would look for is NAS and fanless cooling.