I've always bought Seagate externals, partly because of their 5-year warranties (all of the other externals I've looked at have only 1-year warranties), but the last one I bought is "clicky," although it's working fine. I searched the forum and someone else had the problem and I'll probably try the solution that seemed to work for them.
But I still need at least one more 1TB external drive, and I'm open to suggestions. I need something off-the-shelf -- I don't think I can put together a regular drive and an external enclosure myself (I'm not technical).
I'll need to be able to use the drive with various computers, so USB is essential, although some of my computers also have FW and/or eSATA ports (or whatever you call them).
FWIW, I only use external drives for backups (I do drive images frequently). I like to alternate drives when I do backups, so if one external drive fails, I still have a recent backup on another drive. (This routine saved my bacon when a catastrophic RAID failure wiped out all of my files.)
So far, I've never had an external drive fail. Even my ancient Seagate (which I think is like 200 GB) still works.
Because I only use the externals for backups, and I do the backups at night, speed is not a big factor. I'm more concerned with reliability.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
But I still need at least one more 1TB external drive, and I'm open to suggestions. I need something off-the-shelf -- I don't think I can put together a regular drive and an external enclosure myself (I'm not technical).
I'll need to be able to use the drive with various computers, so USB is essential, although some of my computers also have FW and/or eSATA ports (or whatever you call them).
FWIW, I only use external drives for backups (I do drive images frequently). I like to alternate drives when I do backups, so if one external drive fails, I still have a recent backup on another drive. (This routine saved my bacon when a catastrophic RAID failure wiped out all of my files.)
So far, I've never had an external drive fail. Even my ancient Seagate (which I think is like 200 GB) still works.
Because I only use the externals for backups, and I do the backups at night, speed is not a big factor. I'm more concerned with reliability.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance.