New Portable HDD required

snips86x · 9 Jul 2015 at 14:41

In light of the issues with the Samsung M3 portable 1tb drive in this thread, what are you recommendations for a reliable drive?

I would be looking to a WD drive personally or a LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 1TB Hard Disk Drive?

wazza300 · 9 Jul 2015 at 17:37

what about a usb hdd dock and a regular hdd?

seems to be a lot of failures with those all in one enclosures

snips86x · 9 Jul 2015 at 18:45

wazza300 said:
what about a usb hdd dock and a regular hdd?

seems to be a lot of failures with those all in one enclosures

Unfortunately requirements are for a portable drive

I know there have been some failures but my WD Passport has been solid for a long time!

wazza300 · 9 Jul 2015 at 18:52

can you not get another wd passport then?

snips86x · 9 Jul 2015 at 20:25

wazza300 said:
can you not get another wd passport then?

That was more of a suggestion and I could but wanted to know what other choices there were for reliable drives. But yes, I could

ED209 · 9 Jul 2015 at 20:43

this time buy two and then use 1 as a backup, if 1 then fails it doesn't matter as you have another with the data on

I had a WD passport which was great little drive but then started getting errors after a few years and slow downs. still got it as may try it outside the enclosure to see if the errors go away

welshdragon · 9 Jul 2015 at 20:59

SSD in a portable 2.5" caddy? No need to worry too much about all those knocks etc wrecking a mech drive? Not to mention faster etc

ED209 · 9 Jul 2015 at 21:03

welshdragon said:
SSD in a portable 2.5" caddy? No need to worry too much about all those knocks etc wrecking a mech drive? Not to mention faster etc

Samsung do a few, here they are

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=2104&subid=2974

not cheap though! lol

Tackle_Berry · 10 Jul 2015 at 09:20

I only use passports for externals, my 500gb has lasted a few years with no issues, my 2TB one I've had 7 months and so far no issues.

Also where I used to work, they had 2x 500gb passports for a server backup, each day one would be taken home by a member of staff and were probably treated badly. When I left they were still working with no issues after around 3 years.