What Is The Best External Hard Drive?
What Is The Best External Hard Drive?
If you want to never lose your information and you have the budget for it, you should consider getting a NAS. I would recommend this one – https://amzn.to/3XOp4x4
Good for Travel
SAMSUNG – https://amzn.to/3VPbytB
Good for Home
LaCie – https://amzn.to/3hGffMp
Indestructible!!!
Titanium Micro – https://amzn.to/3qOexB0
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My seagate worries me, I am paranoid it’s going to stop working and your comments didn’t reassure me, was yours pre-owned? what was it called exactly? they have some with "expansion" written on them, was it sdd? hdd?
OWC thunderbay.
Seagate Barracudas
G-Drive
In your opinion, is it better to store tons of word document files on an External hard drive or USB to save space on computer?
I have a question…can you still record up to 1 hour of gameplay with a 500GB external hard drive? Please reply, thank you 🙂
What would you recommend for dvr recording
BOSEES KIKE
Thank you!
100 is not fast at all the old dial up system could do better than that!
I have 3 Seagate drives (1, 2 and 4TB) I used everyday for YEARS until I fried one removing it from the computer without ‘ejecting’ first.
need to show us how to use cables with the LaCei Drive
The irony here is that Lacey uses Seagate drives for their enclosures…
First of all you need to understand what Hard Drive means
100MB/s fast 🤔 🤣
"Hard Drive"
Shows SSD.
smh
Great reviews, Bro.
I concur the Samsung SSD is the best pick for the majority of users.
I said 100MB/ps was fast 😝 I meant to say 1000 for the titanium micro SSD
I still have a massive Seagate 2TB "portable" HDD from 2012, the thing even has its own power suppy. Very clunky, but I’m still using it now. I back up my computer to a newer 2TB drive, then onto the old timer.
From a guy who works on hard drives for living, I can tell you a few things about your line up.
1. Lacie does not make drives, they make fancy looking yet non effective enclosures. What you will find inside of that LaCie box is a regular 4TB M10 Seagate drive (same as you would find in a native Seagate enclosure but for much less). Orange bumper and metal case are not going to save the drive from mechanical failure in case of impact. Heads will get damaged just as easily as they would in the cheapest option of this drive in this size. It’s basically a marketing stunt.
2. SSDs fail for reasons that hard drives do not, so it’s kinda apples to oranges comparison. Also ppl should know Samsung voids warranty if you had your device unplugged for more than 2 weeks :). And the best part is that they are basically unrecoverable once the NAND begins to fail.
Imagine a wedding photographer losing undelivered footage due to SSD like that failing? Even if they have business insurance to cover "any costs involved", they would still not find a solution simply because it does not exist.
If the same happened with a hard drive, at least there are many companies who can get the data back and save their business.
I like the titanium piece you showed, but are you sure that the transfer speed is 100mb/s? That’s the speed of any modern hard drive and some go even faster. It must be way higher than 100 for portable SSD
La Cie is actually a pun. The parent company is Seagate, and La Cie is French for "The Company". The enclosed chip is called a "FireCuda", which presumably is some sort of mythical sea monster. Lol. 🌊
Nice overview and highlights. I decided to try the Samson ssd. Thanks.
The zest is insane
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The Lacie drive is NOT drop-proof. I found out the hard way when I dropped mine, and it was immediately corrupted. I lost all my files.
Wow your price quotes are way off according to Amazon. Am I missing something???
Two years later . Black Ops 6 take up 350GB. CRAZY ! I just bought a Zephyrus G14 with 500GB for $1500. I just purchased external hard drive worth 2TB. I just don’t understand how to install updates to BO6 of the games downloaded on the laptop but the laptop doesn’t have any memory available. Do I have to uninstall the game and redownload it on the external drive so I can make updates ? I didn’t think I can use the storage on the external drive to make updates when the game is downloaded on the laptop itself …..
I’m looking at the WD P10 4TB or 4TB my passport, for me honestly an SSD all of the transfer speeds in the durability are a lot better I just can’t give that much for a 4 TB and I don’t want to have to continually switch my games back and forth from drives so an SSD just isn’t going to do what I want so I was looking at the HHDs do you have any recommendations on the two I’ll ask about
I also had a bad seagate drive
I had my seagate die on me as well, never again.
Why would anyone want a hard drive you can throw around and stamp on! What we want is a relaible hard drive that does not corupt or fail. Hard drives sit on the desk or in a draw we do not need to knock nails in with them!
I use the unionsine to use Microsoft flight simulator
which one is best lacie vs seagate vs wd
If you have importend stuff, you should have a minimum of 3 different brands of old school HDD drives, becourse ssd fail without signs and they loosing data with time if they are not powered periodically, and not even copied the same data on the same ssd or for other reasons.
Ther are some yt videos that can explain it much better then I can. Eventually in the future ther will come out a ssd version that don’t have any of this problems, but they are only beta versions around of them for testing, they will not even loos data in 100years or much much longer and they will be cost much less then today’s ssd beside the first on the market they will cost more, becourse its new, but after a couple of years, it will be a happy data storage solution.
I have forgotten what they called this storage drives.
I never experienced a HDD not working anymore. My Xbox one once felt from like 4ft and it still works fine. However the store is now full on my Xbox so that’s why I’m watching this video. Kinda ironic 😂
Bought the Lacie 2 TB mobile drive about 13 months ago. To back up photos and videos. Completely stopped working after 2 uses. Lacie must have been bought out by by Seagate. Spoke to tech support… utter rubbish. But they can point you to a company that if you pay them can retrieve what is on the broken drive and sell you another one. Absolute SCAMMERs.
The product does the exact opposite of what they say it will do. It does not protect your data.
If u have to choose between WD 8TB My Book Desktop HDD and ADATA 5TB HD710 Pro
Which one would be ur choice based on product quality (speed isn’t my priority here)
Which one would last longer and less likely to have problems with ( u know I’m one of those people who appreciates good Warranty Services but wish to never need it)
I also had a few Seagate drives die very early… never again…
Really for proper work you need Three drives. A decent ssd nvme on your computer for running the operating systems and virtualised environments and programs. You then want a decent 4 or 8 TB ssd portable with usb C. Finally a backup solution such as a NAS with a minimum of 3 enterprise grade drives and raid 5. For something nearly indestructible use a fire safe and backup things like wills, bank accounts, digital wallets keys and passwords, with Archive grade BD-R blue ray optical disk with a life of over 20 years guaranteed.
Lacie is Seagate
Had two Lacies both packed up total rubbish
Hi, what can you use if you have no PC/ out in the field and you want to back up your photos?
My drive was f…ed up because of dirt 😮😢 i think
So true about Seagate drive. Mine just died, good i backed up
WD Internal Black drive in external enclosure.. I just bought a 1tb drive for less than $40… brand new! Orico enclosure is about $20
I bought a Lacie Rugged USB-C 4TB SSD for my Mid2011 iMac. I wanted a bootable drive, and I am finding out that I can’t connect it threw Thunderbolt 1. I bought a adapter & Thunderbolt 2 cable and still no luck. I am to test this on a computer at work see if this is a compatibility maybe a dead hard drive.
Thanks brother, you saved my data and money
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It’s almost like I made this!
My favorite producer, Colt Capperune, made a video about his opinions on SSDs and HDDs in terms of what to use for backups and as your main external drive for editing (in his case, it was music production). If you use an SSD as your main backup, and it does happen to fail for whatever reason, there is no easy way of getting back almost any of your data. Nowadays, you can send a dead HDD to a specialist, and with there being physical parts that store the data, it will be easier to extract it and recover most, if not all, of your data!! I haven’t had this happen myself, but it is something to consider and do some research on!! 🙂
Wow this was useless…
it doesn’t sound like you actually know what you’re talking about tbh. no offense