Seagate Barracuda 3TB Hard Drive (Price Guarantee)
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Sure it can, just find an 3.5" External Enclosure and decide if you want USB 2 or 3. Like THIS one is probably the one I would get.
Cool, thanks for the info. I have put a few 2.5" HDD's into portable enclosures before but never a desktop sized one. That's an insane looking enclosure! Wouldn't have to worry about that thing heating up, lol.
I picked up two 2TB portable HDD's recently and I need to back each one up and I have two 1.5TB desktop's and one 750GB desktop HDD for that purpose.... but the 750GB HDD is getting a bit old now and the two 1.5TB are going to get "older" too... Any telling signs that a HDD might potentially be on its way out?
I havent had any newer HDD's die on me but had a few older ones back in 2006 or thereabout die on me... really sucked! Learned the hard way... ALWAYS DOUBLE BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!!
Not really any way of telling although most drives that are not super old tend to have SMART technology and will be able to warn you before it dies and telling you to back up your data before imminent drive failure. Also I try to buy drives that have at the least a 3-year warranty. I had a WD drive that had a 5-year warranty and I started getting bad sector wrights and the SMART tech was telling me of drive failure. I was able to back up my data and send the drive in for an RMA even though it was 4-years old.
My suggestion is get a Drobo 5N where you'll have a single disk redundancy so long as you have two drives installed. I just got my Drobo in yesterday and it's bad ass.
My suggestion is get a Drobo 5N where you'll have a single disk redundancy so long as you have two drives installed. I just got my Drobo in yesterday and it's bad ass.
Ah k. I will look into that Drobo a bit more but man its expensive!!!
Yeah I know and then when you tack on three 4GB NAS HDD that's an easy $1000.
It's the ultimate Raid setup though. 
Yeah I know and then when you tack on three 4GB NAS HDD that's an easy $1000.
Yeah I know.... probably WAY overkill for my personal data needs, lol. The things that matter on an "invaluable" level (like family pictures & video's, electronic copies of legal documents) we have actually made a back up onto two 64GB thumb drives and put one into a safety deposit box at my bank and one in another safety deposit box at my parents bank. I had about 1000 pictures ranging from the 1920's to 2000's from our family scanned in at a local photography store in hi-res as possible as well as some VHS stuff converted to digital files... and other things like that backed up onto those thumb drives for safe-keep in the event anything were to happen. Considering that stuff is safe-n-sound I really dont worry TOO much about the other data as its all stuff that can be found again or re-created.
I think you can buy an enclosure with a fan that will prevent hdd heating up.
Jay if your looking for something extremely portable and with a semi-large storage capacity I would consider this setup. I have this very setup and I have a bunch of portable programs and also some movies too that I ripped from my Blu-rays. I use the USB 3.0 at home but at work we only have USB 2.0 and 3.0 is backwards compatible to 2.0.
The nice thing about a SSHD is you have the caching of a SSD and the storage and price of a typical HDD all rolled into one and housed in a external enclosure that sleek and stylish that's all very affordable.
Seagate 2.5" SSHD
Orico 2.5" External Enclosure
The nice thing about a SSHD is you have the caching of a SSD and the storage and price of a typical HDD all rolled into one and housed in a external enclosure that sleek and stylish that's all very affordable.
Seagate 2.5" SSHD
Orico 2.5" External Enclosure
Speed and low latency is never overkill, that's just nonsense lol 
How has Seagate home HDDs progressed over the years? I always had bad luck with that company. Their HDDs always died on me more often than any of my WDs.
How has Seagate home HDDs progressed over the years? I always had bad luck with that company. Their HDDs always died on me more often than any of my WDs.
Hrm it's quite the opposite for me. I have a lot of hard drives from several different companies and it's been the WD's that have gone out on me more often than any other. The last one that went out on me was a WD that had a 5-yr warranty and it went out on me 4 1/2 yrs into it's lifecycle. I was able to get it RMA'd. Another WD I had has a 3-yr warranty and it wound up going out on me just like the other one, 4-yrs into it's lifecycle.
The Seagates that are being made now run quieter and cooler than the WD's. The oldest Seagate that I have is 5 years old. If asked what I would recommend it would be a Seagate.
EDIT: I did forget to mention that if you are going to purchase a WD HDD that the Black editions tend to be the best out of the green/blue/red drives. Red's are good but not as dependable as the Blacks and are catered to NAS configurations. The Red edition Seagates are $219 while the Red edition WD's are $299 so they are $20 cheaper.
The Seagates that are being made now run quieter and cooler than the WD's. The oldest Seagate that I have is 5 years old. If asked what I would recommend it would be a Seagate.
EDIT: I did forget to mention that if you are going to purchase a WD HDD that the Black editions tend to be the best out of the green/blue/red drives. Red's are good but not as dependable as the Blacks and are catered to NAS configurations. The Red edition Seagates are $219 while the Red edition WD's are $299 so they are $20 cheaper.
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Jay if your looking for something extremely portable and with a semi-large storage capacity I would consider this setup. I have this very setup and I have a bunch of portable programs and also some movies too that I ripped from my Blu-rays. I use the USB 3.0 at home but at work we only have USB 2.0 and 3.0 is backwards compatible to 2.0.
The nice thing about a SSHD is you have the caching of a SSD and the storage and price of a typical HDD all rolled into one and housed in a external enclosure that sleek and stylish that's all very affordable.
Seagate 2.5" SSHD
Orico 2.5" External Enclosure
Awesome, thanks for the suggestion.
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