[Closed] What exturnal hard drive?

nothing can stop a bank once it reaches terminal velocity.

Reliable is not applicable to hdd's IMHO. Sometimes they just break, sometimes they work for years and years.
I've had great results from green caviar drives over the last few years but ymmv.

Richard

Ask five geeks for HDD recommendations and you'll get five different answers. Look for something with a long warranty.

I've always bought Western Digital, and haven't had one give-up yet. Good advice is that every hard drive will fail at some point - it's a question of when, and how much data you lose when it happens. Automating your backups is a good idea 😕

WD here too, I've got three (two MyBooks, one Elements), had them a few years. No problems yet. But disks is disks, they're generally very, very good these days but failure-wise it's a bit of a lottery. If you would be gutted to lose the data then better to buy two cheap ones and automate backup of one to the other, than one expensive one, IMO. Though if it's music and movies and you have the CDs and DVDs then the worst case scenario is you have to rip them all again. Photos and home movies are best copied onto two disks.h