hey guys I am on a hunt to find the best way to back my stuff up. I am thinking of getting a 500 gig western digital external disk. I would like to know how long the bugger will last? Is it anything like the life of dvds? It has a fan, I will use it just about all day because my music will be on it. Most of the time it will be used to steal friends shit and load completed emule movies on it

Well first a tip



DON'T BUY THIS SHIT!!! I have th 500gb version and it's terrible. Very slow transfer with firewire, can't be manually shut down etc. Horse crap!

You're better off with a Seagate 320gb external

X-mas is gone

But I'm thinking of getting an external drive myself. The duration of the drives in general can be very different. I still have harddrives from 89-95 that work.

Maybe if you write/read 24/7 the life is drained out and you can only use it for a few years. I've no idea.

Humm I was gonna get that one too! I am thinking of doing disks and hot swapping them like spud was talking about on dead donkey. If anyone knows the life of these please post!

Well with swapping they'll last just like any other internal, quite some time

Does anyone have guides on hot swapping and shit? I really couldnt find a guide that tells me what I need, Where this connects etc...

lux i might buy this one


My current one is the Green 160 and i have had zero problems with it

Also that green is 30$ cheep then the blue 500

Who knows, maaybe it's the company here that sells fucked up models.


Anyways, Im gonna be getting Seagate's 320gb next, since I seen it in action and it works pretty well, even for editing purposes

Cool beans. I am sure externals are for me. How long does a Wester digital last? 30 Years would be nice I wish I put a 2 terabyte internal in my pc to start will!

30 years... hmmm

I'd use the externals mostly for backup solutions, not too much usage an anus

I got me a Toshiba External HDD. Works great, low noise, pretty good speeds and no problems playing video files straight from it. Been reading about brackets for some time now and i more and more wanna get me some. In fact i'm more thinking about three comps. One workstation,encoding, Photoshop for that kinda stuff, one server for storage and the other obvious reasons and one for in the living room for viewing movies on the tv. I'm still stuck with quite some questions though cause i'm not thta good in computer hardware. Like am i gonna put them brackets in the server or in myworkstation or in both? Also the pricecard attached But it's getting more and more needed.
This is also cool though:
http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sa ... takits.php

Yea in 10 years hopefully a 2 terabyte will be 300$ and last a lifetime! Damm you technology!

Lux how many externals you got you mad man downloader? I am thinking of just backing up all my emule downloads on this external

Only 1 for now, that shitter of 500gb

Gotta something like 1tb internal when you count on the disks. I used to do a lot of burning on dvd-r before, but I gave up on that shit, so now I gotta get meself another HDD

Waiting for the pay

I always get Maxtor & Lacie extrenals, never had a prob with em so far

Thos Lacie disks seem expensive no?

Maxtor always has been poop to me. Owned 3 so far and all 3 died pretty fast.
WD has always been kind to me
Quantum as well, but I think they dont make any drives anymore.

So anyone here uses those brackets for removable internal HDD's? Or just external HDD's?