Nerd Help Needed Plz Thx

[palsgraf_polka]

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!

Comments

[leroyjackson.livejournal.com]

I eat hard drives like candy. Right now I ONLY buy Seagate drives, mainly due to the 5 year warranty. I keep all my precious data backed up with Jungledisk so it it fails, not that big of a deal. I also bought SpinRite and use it on my drives every few months to exercise them. I have not had a failure since. My friend did have an older Seagate external fail (SpinRite saved it), and I heard their 1.5 TB have issues. I currently have 2 of those in my file server with no problems. Right now I have 2 1.5TB, 1 750GB, 2 400GB, and 4 200GB all in various computers/devices all Seagate and all work fine. I have 1 western digital 400gb too, given as a gift and it works great too.

A good rule of thumb, if the data is not in 2 places it does not exist. I would suggest looking into online backup like Mozy, which I used before Jungledisk. I loved it, but only switched to Jungledisk because Mozy does not have a Linux client.

[reeeeeeeeflex.livejournal.com]

I use Mozy too. For about $5 a month I keep 55 gigs of data backed up.