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I ordered a 2TB Toshiba Canvio Connect drive off Amazon.
It came, it didn't work, it went back.
I ordered a Seagate Expansion.
It came, it doesn't work and it's going back.
Are all portable HDD created equal? Have I just been unlucky? Should I spend for a few quid more than the cheapest on an Amazon search?
Can anyone recommend a decent model?
Western digital - had my 2 for the last couple of years and they have been faultless, one attached to a NAS, the other getting relatively little use.
Or... buy an enclosure - something like Icybox 2.5 SATA-USB3 enclosure and a hard drive. Putting them together only requires doing up a few screws.
yeah I got a base off ebuyer and then just any sata hd, the biggest you can afford.
the biggest you can afford.
* As long as it fits in the case - you need to check the depth of the hard disk and what the case will allow - some hard drives are 7.5mm others can be up to 15mm deep.
[url= https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/ ]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/[/url]
Hitachi (g-tech)
often you get particular drives that have a huge failure rate in comparison with others, yes Seagate and your 3tb ones used in lace D2’s i’m talking about you. 😡
Cheap and Amazon may be the problem. Same as cheap and ebay.
Just because it's Amazon, doesn't mean it's not from some cheap Chinese fake/remanufacture importer. Unless it's explicitly sold by Amazon, not a marketplace user.
Enclosures I've had far less luck with in recent years compared to dedicated portable drives. I find they are finicky about the drive and often drop the connection to the computer, corrupting the drive in the process. Got one with eSATA also and both my PC and NAS have eSATA port, but this had the same problem.
All said though, WD, Samsung and Seagate drives I've generally found reliable (Samsung and Seagate being one and the same now as far as drives are concerned).
p.s. If the drives are truly duff, and it's not your PC/device that's throwing a wobbly trying to transfer high speeds over USB, then try RMAing the drive to the actual manufacturer. You can often download tools from them that will do tests to check it really is faulty before submitting an RMA request (else they'll charge for the return if it isn't). Of course if it's a bit of a dodgy import, they might not touch it 😉