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External hard drive advice please
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:17:39 -0400, Wolf K
wrote: I'm looking for another external drive or two. My usual source has both Seagate/Lacie and Western Digital. It looks like 1 or 2TB are the smallest ones these days. Price range is around $50 to $100 per terabyte. Lacie prices are double Seagate models of same capacity - is Lacie the better quality version of Seagate? Western Digital models are generally in same price range as Seagate. Or should I look at other brands? I'm willing to spend up to about $100/terabyte for greater reliability. All advice and recommendations gratefully received and carefully considered. I don't have enough experience with drives to recommend a particular brand. But your statement "Price range is around $50 to $100 per terabyte" is not correct. Look on Amazon.com. A 1TB drive is around $50, but the price per TB goes way down as the drive size goes up. I see a 2TB drive for $69, a 4TB for $105 and an 8TG for $152. Personally I wouldn't buy anything smaller than a 2TB. Also note that you can buy an internal drive and an external case for it, and sometimes that's a better deal than an external. |
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