Any help appreciated...
I need to replace my seagate barracuda 3tb drive which has failed on me.
I initially thought that I would get 2 x 2-3tb drives, so that I can get rid of my silly number of old hard drives (all much older than the seagate and still working fine) and be able to have a full backup. However, prices aren't as low as I thought they would be.
I think I'm going to go WD, on past experience. The drive will be used for documents, photos, videos, CAD files and games. Would the WD Caviar Red be suitable / best option for price, performance and most importantly reliability or do I really need to go for a 'black'?
Great timing as I am about to hand in my thesis that I have been working on since October last year! Annoyingly, as a temporary measure I put in an old 1tb drive, re-assigned the matching drive letter and ran dropbox, where I have everything backed up. However, dropbox thought that I had just deleted stuff and so deleted everything online as well. I have gone online to restore the files but because there are so many, I have to wait for a response to my support ticket.
I need to replace my seagate barracuda 3tb drive which has failed on me.
I initially thought that I would get 2 x 2-3tb drives, so that I can get rid of my silly number of old hard drives (all much older than the seagate and still working fine) and be able to have a full backup. However, prices aren't as low as I thought they would be.
I think I'm going to go WD, on past experience. The drive will be used for documents, photos, videos, CAD files and games. Would the WD Caviar Red be suitable / best option for price, performance and most importantly reliability or do I really need to go for a 'black'?
Great timing as I am about to hand in my thesis that I have been working on since October last year! Annoyingly, as a temporary measure I put in an old 1tb drive, re-assigned the matching drive letter and ran dropbox, where I have everything backed up. However, dropbox thought that I had just deleted stuff and so deleted everything online as well. I have gone online to restore the files but because there are so many, I have to wait for a response to my support ticket.