Wow. I yanked my passport off the desk, out of the usb port and accidentally wacked it half way across the room while it was spinning down, and it still works fine. Its a wd, too. On the subject of hard disk reliability, this article might be interesting: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/ -------------------------------------------------- From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 7:35 PM To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] What has happened to Liam?
Hi Dark and all, Just thought I would point out the name of the brand is "Sea Gate" not "See Gate" in case anyone wants to go looking for that brand of external drive. I will personally vouch for Sea Gate drives, because I have two of them and they have been far more reliable then Western Digital in my experience. As for Passport drives I have owned a couple of those, and found them to be very problematic. They are basically a laptop drive in a plastic housing. I've had troubles with the USB chords going bad on them and needing to be replaced, and if you drop one it is toast. So I found flash drives more reliable for basic backups. On 9/1/14, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lori. > > I don't know what sort of drive you used there, but I can say i've used a > backup external drive for years. > > At the moment I have a see gate one. This is a rectangular device. It just > has the one usb and a power lead, (I don't know why you would need two > usb's > > or a stand). When I bought it I had to slot the part with the connectors > for > > the usb and power lead onto the main box, but this wasn't a problem and > now > > it is done I can pretty much forget about it. What I do is stick it in a > box > > under my bed, then pull it out every three weeks or so to do a full backup > of everything, all my keys, documents, music, audiobooks etc, (not to > mention the setup files for programs). > > As an alternative You can now buy what are called passport drives. These > are > > indeed as you say like a very fat memory stick, they are very small > andportable, but can hold ridiculously large amounts (I bought one > recently > > for my friend which had a 1 tb capacity). > > The difference however is that for a passport drive with no power lead you > will be paying twice the price as you would for a standard external drive > that needs plugging in. For example for 100 quid I could buy a 5 tb > external > > drive with a plug, or a 2 Tb passport drive without. > > You also don't have to use E bay either, indeed I probably wouldn't get > something like that from E bay myself sinse as you said your not sure of > what your getting. > > Maplins are a reasonably good national chain and unlike pc world won't try > to foist things on you, also the one near my parents are good for general > advice as well. > > Hth. > > All the best, > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
