External Hard Drives

[JerseySean]

Does anyone have a go-to brand? I need to be able to store a bunch of data for work 700Gig minimum. I saw this, but I need these to be reliable. what do you think?

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=206821005

[MadMatt]

That is an outstanding price for 1TB! I might have to get one myself!

Doing a quick search, newegg.com had the most customer reviews. The drive came out with 4 out of 5 stars after 23 reviews.

It was mostly 5 star reviews with a couple of 1 star reviews thrown in; low ratings were for DOA drives or problems after trying to reformat.

I think Fantom uses mostly Western Digital innards, so they are pretty stable.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: It looks like some of the reviewers mention Western Digital drives if/when they opened up the case.

[JerseySean]

That is an outstanding price for 1TB! I might have to get one myself!

Doing a quick search, newegg.com had the most customer reviews. The drive came out with 4 out of 5 stars after 23 reviews.

It was mostly 5 star reviews with a couple of 1 star reviews thrown in; low ratings were for DOA drives or problems after trying to reformat.

I think Fantom uses mostly Western Digital innards, so they are pretty stable.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: It looks like some of the reviewers mention Western Digital drives if/when they opened up the case.

Thanks man

[zentraed]

Are these files backed up somewhere else? If not, you should get an external drive that supports RAID 1. Something like the LaCie Two Big.

[Mike Teacher]

My go-to is western digital; Two 1 TB drives, four 500GB drives and no problems at all with any; plug them in and 20 secs later theyre self installed and ready to fill.

[DolaMight]

My go-to is western digital; Two 1 TB drives, four 500GB drives and no problems at all with any; plug them in and 20 secs later theyre self installed and ready to fill.

Fill? 4TB? you must have the entire collective knowledge of the universe on there. That explains alot.

[DolaMight]

Whatever you choose, make sure it has a ESATA port. When you have to burn off it you'll appreciate not having to cache files first because it's recognized as an internal SATA drive.

[JerseySean]

My go-to is western digital; Two 1 TB drives, four 500GB drives and no problems at all with any; plug them in and 20 secs later theyre self installed and ready to fill.

Mike, I dont really know you but that is the quantity of disk space found in most child porn raids. What could you possiblu use all of that for? Are you a FLAC only guy on torrent sites? Are you hacking the Pentagon? Or are you recording your whole life in real time 1080p?

[Tenbatsuzen]

Mike, I dont really know you but that is the quantity of disk space found in most child porn raids. What could you possiblu use all of that for? Are you a FLAC only guy on torrent sites? Are you hacking the Pentagon? Or are you recording your whole life in real time 1080p?

That's a little out of line.

Mike is a photographer. At the highest quality, you can take up a lot of room easily.

It's also a lot of CD ripping, etc.

[DolaMight]

That's a little out of line.

Not really moral compass, I don't think anyone would really think the honorable teacher would engage in such things. Innocent joke.


And yes that being the reason, a single RAW photo can be around 50-100 MB depending on camera so 4TB might seem small to a busy photographer.

[Mike Teacher]

Mike, I dont really know you but that is the quantity of disk space found in most child porn raids. What could you possiblu use all of that for? Are you a FLAC only guy on torrent sites? Are you hacking the Pentagon? Or are you recording your whole life in real time 1080p?

I take an average of 1,000-3,000 pictures a month, at 6MB minimum per click; plus for music, Pro Tools sessions is all uncompressed .wav files

And 12,534 songs for the iPod; uncompressed, or lossless FLAC codec

[booster11373]

I take an average of 1,000-3,000 pictures a month, at 6MB minimum per click; plus for music, Pro Tools sessions is all uncompressed .wav files

And 12,534 songs for the iPod; uncompressed, or lossless FLAC codec


The man knows what he likes!

[sailor]

Not really moral compass, I don't think anyone would really think the honorable teacher would engage in such things. Innocent joke.

i thought of the same joke, but decided against it for fear it would be taken the wrong way, even though i had no malicious intent.

[JerseySean]

i thought of the same joke, but decided against it for fear it would be taken the wrong way, even though i had no malicious intent.

Clearly, there was no malicious intent. Mike, do you really use 2 TB and use 2 to back up?

[donnie_darko]

i say get 2 and run em redundantly.
that way you always have a backup.

[DolaMight]

i thought of the same joke, but decided against it for fear it would be taken the wrong way, even though i had no malicious intent.

Why can't we all agree that Mike the Teacher's hard drives are full of honest legal porn and just let it be.