Reliable external hard drive
OK well i used to have 2x external hard drives to back up my precious data for my business. They were HP simple saves one was a 2TB and one was a 1TB, the 2TB was fine and fast but it wasnt big enough so i decided to get a 4TB for the future.
I invested in a Seagate 4TB external drive. a Few things i notcied:
- the drive is cheap sounding, when the platter accesses it sounds like cheap metal on cheap metal
- there is always a fan on in the drive to cool it
- which according to reviews i found AFTER i bought the drive (even though i a did a thorough search/reviews of the drive before i bought it!) is useless and WILL not sufficiently cool the drive and it will fail loosing the data contained thereon
- when i did a trasferr of some files (1TB's worth) it was fine, i then did on of 66MB and the drive froze and CRASHED, yes it actually CRASHED my mac! never, ever seen that in all my years of using one!
I refuse, REFUSE to use a drive that will utlimatly fail as well possibly crash and cause damage to my mac, my business machind an
I have tried and tried but i cannot find reviews of drives that are over 3TB unless its customer reviews which vary wildely. I just need to know which is good and which to avoid. Please help, if i want to send the drive back i need to do it within the next few days in roder to swap it/get a refund.
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.3)