Seagate external hard drive?

I've been using Seagate internal and external drives for some years now and always had very good luck with there life and speed.

Please take note that no hard drive, internal or external, is made specifically for Mac, OS X, or Windows. They are all the same. The difference is in the way they are formatted. Any drive can be formatted for either system.

So If it says it is for Mac the only difference between that drive and any other, of the same brand or some other brand, is that Mac labeled drive comes Pre-Formatted for OS X. This is something you can do yourself with any drive. So if they are asking for extra money just because it is formatted for OS X save your money and buy one for Windows then use Disk Utility to format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Would not recommended to be purchased. Get a Hitachi or Toshiba, same Apple uses.

However, as such, all HD can and do fail, data redundancy on multiple HD is the only security.

Hitachi is the winner in hard drive reliability survey:

Hitachi manufacturers the safest and most reliable hard drives, according to the Storelab study. Of the hundreds of Hitachi hard drives received, not a single one had failed due to manufacturing or design errors. Adding the highest average lifespans and the best relationship between failures and market share, Hitachi can be regarded as the winner.

OYEN Digital doesnt make any HD

There are only 4 conventional HD makers on earth, WD , Seagate, Toshiba, and Hitachi (WD aquired Hitachi little bit ago).

For all information about archives, backups etc etc. see here:

Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection

Toshiba 3.5" HD are made by Hitachi, though marked Toshiba.

Toshiba 2.5" HD Toshiba drives.

There is no "best" for Time machine, only the best mfg. HD. However they all CAN and WILL fail

If you think you data is safe on a SINGLE external HD, your making a gigantic error most people make,

and its a tragedy that can and will strink without fail.

Always presume correctly that your data is priceless and takes a very long time to create and often is irreplaceable. Always presume accurately that hard drives are extremely cheap, and you have no excuse not to have multiple redundant copies of your data copied on hard drives and stored away several places, lockboxes, safes, fireboxes, offsite and otherwise.

Hard drives aren't prone to failure…hard drives are guaranteed to fail (the very same is true of SSD). Hard drives dont die when aged, hard drives die at any age, and peak in death when young and slowly increase in risk as they age.

Never practice at any time for any reason the false premise and unreal sense of security in thinking your data is safe on any single external hard drive. This is never the case and has proven to be the single most common horrible tragedy of data loss that exists.

Many hundreds of millions of hours of work and data are lost each year due to this single common false security. This is an unnatural disaster that can be avoided by making all data redundant and then redundant again. If you let a $60 additional redundant hard drive and 3 hours of copying stand between you and years of work, then you've made a fundamental mistake countless thousands of people each year have come to regret.

Countless people think they're safe and doing well having a single external backup of their vital data they worked months, years, and sometimes decades on. Nothing could be further from the truth. Never let yourself be in situation of having a single external copy of your precious data at any time.

BEST FOR THE COST, Toshiba "tiny giant" 15mm thick 2TB drive (have several of them, lots of storage in tiny package) $100

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Connect-Portable-HDTC720XK3C1/dp/B00CGUMS48 /ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1390020791&sr=8-3&keywords=toshiba+2tb

best options for the price, and high quality HD:

Quality 1TB drives are $50 per TB on 3.5" or $65 per TB on 2.5"

Perfect 1TB for $68

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/B005J7YA3W/ref=sr_1_ 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379452568&sr=8-1&keywords=1tb+toshiba

Nice 500gig for $50. ultraslim perfect for use with a notebook

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B009F1CXI2/ref=s r_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1377642728&sr=1-1&keywords=toshiba+slim+500gb

*This one is the BEST portable external HD available that money can buy:
HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $88

http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Mobile-Portable-External-0S03559/dp/B009GE6JI8/ref=sr _1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383238934&sr=8-1&keywords=HGST+Touro+Mobile+Pro+1TB+USB+3.0+7 2 00+RPM

FW800 vs. USB3.0

Youre paying twice as much or more and not getting anything.

FW800 costs too much, and the HD inside are still the same (5400 or 7200RPM)

see charts below

http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2013/05/usb3_table_hitachi-100038864 -large.png

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/sc_b0058bdfvm -hdvid01.jpg

Zimmer1956 wrote:

one other thing - the OYEN Digital mini hard drive uses those drives; the mini 2TB uses MQ01ABB200 and the 1TB uses the Hitachi Travelstar 7K1000. That can't be all bad, right?

Yes, same drive , diff connection enclosure.

Yes, I have literal piles of both of those HD, good stuff all around. 😉

MQ01ABB200 is a 15.2mm 4 platter drive 2.5" , the "tiny giant" Im running on 2 connected right now.

Zimmer1956 wrote:

Are the Toshiba 2TB stackable?

in what sense? in their external enclosures? No. Almost none of them are.

elaborate on your term.

industrial velcro fixes all things in external HD enclosures.