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palsgraf_polka) wrote2009-07-26 01:55 pm
palsgraf_polka) wrote2009-07-26 01:55 pm
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Nerd Help Needed Plz Thx
I need to reformat my entire hard drive. It's become slow and sluggish and I just want to start from scratch.
I need to back up both of my internal hard drives, so I am going to buy a 1 TB external hard drive. Fry's has a Seagate USB drive for only $104.99.
But don't Seagate drives suck? I can't remember, and unfortunately the person I used to turn to for all matters geekery is no longer in my life [sigh].
So, I would appreciate some advice. TIA!
I need to back up both of my internal hard drives, so I am going to buy a 1 TB external hard drive. Fry's has a Seagate USB drive for only $104.99.
But don't Seagate drives suck? I can't remember, and unfortunately the person I used to turn to for all matters geekery is no longer in my life [sigh].
So, I would appreciate some advice. TIA!
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It was mostly the 1 tb Seagate drives from one factory in Thailand(?) that were bad, iirc. But their quality has gone downhill ever since they bought Maxtor. I buy WDs now, I have only had one of those fail and that was after several years.
I always buy regular internal HDs, stick them in an Addonics enclosure, and format them with Acronic disk manager. I don't really care for most dedicated external drives, they don't have actual on-off switches (1) and a lot of them use proprietary USB cables now (2). (1) The Seagate drives that come on pedestals are like that. They are also not stackable.
(2) WD MyBook's use these, I usually leave USB cables connected in the back, and this fucks with that strategy.