Portable hard drive
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2 TB? Are you trying to make a mirror of your home computer and OS?
I just use flash sticks to back up my outlook.pst and My Documents. It's cheap. I keep the software CD-ROMs in the extreme case where I would have to restore it.
ive had WD for years, love it. I use it for all my photos and music. Its getting full so I plan to buy another WD product that is larger, keep my photos on here as a seperate backup and move all music and photos to the new one.
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A big external hard drive is a pretty cool resource. It's completely portable, and is so big that it can hold anything and everything. I've got one that has close to a thousand DVD's copied onto it, all the music I've ever owned, hundreds of books, all our pictures and home movies and scans of documents. I keep two copies updated of it, and keep one in a safe. It's awesome, and getting cheaper by the day.
I ended up going all out. I bought a Asustor AS-604t (NAS = Network Assist Storage) almost 2 years ago. It can hold up to 4 HDs. Right now I have 4 3TB drives(12TB total) in a RAID 5 array, meaning all 4 drives are synced together so if 1 or 2 hds go out(which one did just a week ago and I replaced it), I can replace them without losing data. With the RAID 5 setup, it brings the total space of all 12tb drives to 8tb.
I store everything on there, pictures, home videos, movies, documents, everything. I even have a portable WD 2TB hard drive tied into my NAS and use that as another backup just in case. With my network setup, I can grab all the info I store on my NAS from any computer/laptop/phone/PS3/Xbox/Ouya through my network. I can stream videos/movies from my consoles, TV, and phones off the NAS at anytime.
Another cool thing I did a few years ago was that download an app on my wife's and my android phones that will automatically sync my photos/videos off my wife's and my phones every night on to the NAS. So now I don't have to hook up my phone to my computer to download the pic/videos I took that day.
You don't have to go hog wild the way I did, you can take a 2TB drive and tie into your wireless router(if it has a USB connection) and do the same thing. I just like playing with network stuff.
To answer you question of which one to get, I have been a fan of WD drives for awhile. Go with any of them at any size and you can't go wrong.
I store everything on there, pictures, home videos, movies, documents, everything. I even have a portable WD 2TB hard drive tied into my NAS and use that as another backup just in case. With my network setup, I can grab all the info I store on my NAS from any computer/laptop/phone/PS3/Xbox/Ouya through my network. I can stream videos/movies from my consoles, TV, and phones off the NAS at anytime.
Another cool thing I did a few years ago was that download an app on my wife's and my android phones that will automatically sync my photos/videos off my wife's and my phones every night on to the NAS. So now I don't have to hook up my phone to my computer to download the pic/videos I took that day.
You don't have to go hog wild the way I did, you can take a 2TB drive and tie into your wireless router(if it has a USB connection) and do the same thing. I just like playing with network stuff.
To answer you question of which one to get, I have been a fan of WD drives for awhile. Go with any of them at any size and you can't go wrong.
My WD is making a lot of noise, I think its dying, ive had it for like 8+ years. I guess its time for a new one. I lose that drive I lose a LOT. Going to check tonight is my hard drive on the PC can at least hold all of the photos for the time being until I pick up a new drive. The music and etc is nice but the photos are my main concern.
I use a Seagate Free Agent GoFlex. 500 GB, but since I purchased mine a few years ago the newer models have increased capacity. Only facet I don't like is the Memeo software that came with it. It is now expired (WTH is that about) and I am nagged to purchase an annual subscription. I need to find a substitute "backup" software, preferably free.
The unit itself is just fine and has held up for 3 years.
The unit itself is just fine and has held up for 3 years.
Yea, I couldn't stand that either. One of the Segates I had I just decided to reformat and ended up getting ride of that and used the windows backup. To me that was just a bunch of bloat ware.
Those passports are nice a small. Very cool. Are they pretty quite?
My old one was a WD MyBook and it wasnt loud enough to bother me ever.
The new one hasnt arrived yet.
