I must admit that the WD ones look the most attractive for my needs, but
I'm reading (on various forums and Amazon) about lots of people having
troubles with the latest disks. They have recently changed the USB
connection to a new micro adaptor and it seems to be generating a lot of
complaints about it fitting badly and breaking the connection at the
slightest touch. The new G-Drive mobile disks (Hitachi) look
interesting, but since mentioning them I've discovered that they've only
just been released and no-one will have stocks for about a month. Their
other G-Drive disks do seem to be well reviewed though.
on 23/01/2010 16:13 Jason Davies sent the following:
On 23 Jan 2010, at 15:11, Graham Street wrote:
So, it now means I can look at USB-only external mini disks. Slightly cheaper,
and more plentiful. I've already had a recommendation of Western Digital (from
David). Anyone else using different external mini disks they'd care to
recommend? Anyone tried G-Drive minis or mobile disks, for example?
I've got some WD ones but one (the 320 gig) seems to get occasional power
interruptions. The last one I bought was therefore a Seagate something-or-other
which seems not to have the same problem.
I treat them as large floppy disks to be honest -- they might fail. So I clone
each of them from time to time. When a TM one recently started acting weirdly,
I just switched to the clone (DW could not fix it) and recloned THAT back to
the first. I think that kind of corruption should be treated as occasional but
inevitable (so having a clone is like having a spare tyre in the boot).
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