Seagate portable USB 3 1TB hard drive - Ebuyer - Free Delivery £64.98 + TCB

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  splender8 months, 1 day ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  Bottom end of the price range for a 1TB portable drive (no ext power needed) with USB 3. Although I couldn't find reliability figures for this disk but in general Seagate reliability is up and in the ranks of WD and Samsung, well , at least for 1TB and 2 TB 3.5" internal disks.
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  SUPERCOOLWILLOW8 months, 1 day ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  i like both of these
  
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/samsung-m3-1tb-usb-3-0-slimline-portable-hard-drive-black-70-amazon-ebuyer-1313429#comments
  
  now which one as that samsung one comes with a 3yr warranty
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  Faythur8 months, 1 day ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  This Samsung is priced around the same but has a three year warranty.
  
  Manufacturer wise, personally I'd prefer the Samsung...
  
  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110952068942;jsessionid=C312C70A9D49FC3FA40A8B8F5A6C9790?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D110952068942%26_rdc%3D1
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  splender8 months, 1 day ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  Personally I "paired" all my external disks. Second one is backup of the first one. I tend to use two different brands in the pair in case a batch has similar faults e.g. firmware or flimsy connection or connector where one inserts the USB cable. So one disk will get much more use than the other (at least for power on time) so one could switch primary to secondary after a year's use. So as long as warranty is 2 years or more I am OK. 70% of my disk problems had been due to master file table corruption during read write when Windows update the file table records and there was a mishap. So this is why I pair them although one could repair the file tables or use GETDATABACK. With a backup copy it is much faster to recover. After running GETDATABACK on the primary disk you can identify quickly which files or folders that needed recovery since the last backup. GETDATABACK is a great free tool, saved me on a 320GB disk when coincidentally I upgraded the main drive to Intel SSD and after a successful upgrade and upon inserting this 320GB disk the master file table was corrupted so I was able to recover a couple files which were changed since the last backup to the secondary.
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  brainsys8 months, 1 day ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  splender

  Personally I "paired" all my external disks. Second one is backup of the first one.

  
  Yes - anybody without a backup deserves to lose their data. Its only a matter of time ...
  
  However Desktop units are so much cheaper (and bigger). You could backup multiple portable disks to one unit. And, as it is only a backup, portability is not really an issue. Used intermittently the likelihood of failure is much less.
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  ShaunnyBwoy8 months, 1 day ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  Nice drive, even by Seaweedgate. I bought 2 a year and a half ago for £35 each (just before the Taiwan floods), and they're a treat. I'd have bought 10 more to flog on ebay (then become a millionaire! X)) if I knew they'd have shot up in price soon after.
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  JoeSpur8 months, 1 day ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  The Samsung is uglier...
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  JustExtreme8 months, 1 day ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  JoeSpur

  The Samsung is uglier...

  
  
  In that case if looks really matter that much with a portable hard drive to you, get the Seagate.
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  pon8 months, 1 day ago1 Like #9Show comment toolsReply

  ShaunnyBwoy

  Nice drive, even by Seaweedgate. I bought 2 a year and a half ago for £35 each (just before the Taiwan floods), and they're a treat. I'd have bought 10 more to flog on ebay (then become a millionaire! X)) if I knew they'd have shot up in price soon after.

  
  thailand floods
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  cloudt888 months, 1 day ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  was looking for one, this looks good to me!
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  Neostar8 months, 1 day ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  Also the USB connector is NOT soldered on this which is great as it's more versatile
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  pc50207 months, 3 weeks ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  this ones cheaper and I got it delivered next day with the free delivery even though I ordered it at 22:00!!!
  
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/buffalo-ministation-1tb-usb-3-0-portable-hdd-black-59-99-delivered-ebay-ebuyerexpress-1317082

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