External Hard Drive Suggestions

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jrod81

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I am trying to build a budget for a full setup for an attorney's office. I need some suggestions on good external hard drives (at least 1TB)... I have always used WD stuff and lets face it- there is much better stuff out there... shoot me some suggestions that are cost efficient.
thanks
jared
 
One man's cost efficient is another man's pocket change ...

Not sure this qualifies, but of the dozens of external drives I've used, the housings I've filled, the TimeMachines I've organized -- the Lacie drives have always made me happy I spent the extra. Yes, they are usually the most expensive option. And yes, they are quiet, cool running & feel solidly built. Some have four options for connection to your system, and my most recent addition was an NAS drive that was immediately recognized by Time Machine by every computer on my wireless network. You may be shocked to hear that I once paid $5,000 for a single hard drive -- a whopping 10 megabyte monster sure to protect me forever -- that I can today (twenty years later) buy 100,000 times as much storage for 2% of the price means I don't squawk when the drive I really like costs $50 more than the cheapest one I can find.

Cheers,
GB
 
All hard drives will fail eventually. They have moving parts. Any of the major brands work pretty well.

You should be more concerned with having redundant copies of the data, and having backup/restore procedures that are actually followed. When, not if, a hard drive eventually fails, it will be the difference between total panic or following the restore procedure.

Having said that, I usually get Seagate or Western Digital.
 
Not a fan of Lacies at all.

Cost efficient and backup for an attorney's office is an oxymoron.

Buy from OWC, iStoragePro, or CalDigit. Redundant backup. Make it a cloned backup, not a RAID backup.
 
David S. said:
Not a fan of Lacies at all.

Cost efficient and backup for an attorney's office is an oxymoron.

Buy from OWC, iStoragePro, or CalDigit. Redundant backup. Make it a cloned backup, not a RAID backup.
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Couldn't agree more. Geographically dispersed backups on quality hardware. I use G-Tech for my personal needs but I'd be looking at what you mentioned here for other uses. I'd be using RAID 5 most likely, and mirroring to a portable that could travel off-site daily.

I don't trust hard drives as far as I can throw them so I back off anything important to optical.
 
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