I have a mix of ~20 FreeAgent 3 and 4 TB drives I use for weekly/monthly/yearly archiving/offsite storage and have only had one failure in 2 years. And that was pretty much right out of the box. The weekly drives are very write intensive for the entire week they are attached. These are 3.5" drives of course, you didn't mention your form factor. I have a few 1.5GB 2.5" style I use at home for daily backups and IP Cam DVR storage and haven't had any problems yet, going on a couple years.
________________________________ From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: USB3 External HD recommendation I have had seven Seagate external hard drives in my lab at various times in the last 4.5 years. The last two appear to be failing. They no longer work on my Win7 PC but work perfectly on my MacBook Pro with the Paragon NTFS for Max OS X driver. Needless to say, I am a little gun shy about getting another Seagate external drive. What drives do you recommend? The two drives that fail in Win7 but work on my Mac are 1TB USB3 drives Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex. Thanks Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
