External HDD - What brand?

[Metallifreak]

Hey dudes, I'm checking www.amazon.com for an external 3TB HDD USB 3.0 drive, just to store some private photos from my Kids and some videos of them. So what brand do you prefer?? I have a couple of possibilities:


- Intenso € 96.99
- WD My Book € 113.85
- TrekStore € 106,89
- Seagate € 107,90
- Verbatim € 113,08


So what do you think is the bet choice??????

[damage jackal]

I've always been a Seagate fan. Previous HDD manufacturers they've acquired were on of the most solid ones - Maxtor, Quantum. JFYI, 3.5" drives come with their own power supply, can't be powered via USB.

[damageinc]

I got a WD 2 TB external HDD and I'm satisfied with it.

[Alexander2010]

I advice Seagate, Use them since years, have 5 external HDDs from this firm. Some years ago Seagate did of his HDDs everytime 6 years garanty, but due of some things now only 2 yeras like all firms, it says they offer a very high quality. I hadn't any problems with that instead WD and Samsung. Seagate HDDs has a function automaticaly turn off after about 10 minutes, sometimes I forget to turn off my HDDs and this very help me, HDD don't works for nothing and leave alive longer, my WD and Samsung hadn't it.
Can say about Trekstore, this firm don't have his own HDDs, they have inside a housing Samsung HDDs, after a half year my Trekstore dead, but I had a lucky to save my files due to dismantle a housing and connect HDD as internal. Never Trekstore again...!!!

Of cource a finall dicision do yourself, I just described how it going at me

[Metallifreak]

Thanx for the advises. My bery first choice was the Verbatim one, but reading the Information clearly, it sucks. They sell it as 3TB but have 2HDDs in side. One is 2GB big and the other one 750MB big. Crazy, since they sill it as one 3TB HDD.
My next favourite seems to be Seagate, of course.

[damage jackal]

I hadn't any problems with that instead WD and Samsung.

As of 2012, Samsung HDD business was sold to Seagate.

They sell it as 3TB but have 2HDDs in side. One is 2GB big and the other one 750MB big.

HDD manufacturers use decimal system to measure their drives. Meaning 1GB equals 1000MB. While softwares and operating systems use binary system where 1GB equals 1024MB.

[vht]

Just remember, all HDD's will crash sooner or later, so buy 2 and keep one as a mirrored backup using some type of app.

Most people need to learn this the hard way.

[Metallifreak]

So I have deceided and grabbed the Seagate one.

[The Commader]

Toshiba works also fine for me! Seagate unknown shit.....:-)
My friend who has an PC store said that Seagate sucks therefore I have Toshiba. But buy Seagate :-)

[Metallifreak]

Toshiba works also fine for me! Seagate unknown shit.....:-)
My friend who has an PC store said that Seagate sucks therefore I have Toshiba. But buy Seagate :-)

Andy,never ever had troubles with Seagate. But we used to have Toshiba in our Office. I can tell ya one thing: This Brand sucks