Hi all.
Looking to buy 2x 2TB Western Digital Elements external drives. Any specials you know about? I'm located in Sydney, and happy to pick them up to save on shipping.
Gamedude has it for $209 which is the cheapest by far, but Whirlpool reports have been really negative.
Seems as though it's less popular than the MyBook, but Amazon reviews rate it better.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QEBMCI/ref=noref?ie=UTF…
Model no is WDBAAU0020HBK.
Thanks!
Yeah, reading the reviews with the WD My Book, it's not actually the hardware which is problematic, but the software which comes with. And it's not great with Macs either. Elements is bare bones, and seems to work well for most.
any reason you want to go for that versus getting a normal HDD and a docking station via e-sata? btw, with esata, you can actually defrag a 2tb hdd without it (or the owner) keeling over (whichever comes first in the next 100 years) ;)
Can you explain that one?
I've already got a Synology NAS which has a partition alignment problem and no backup.
So I have to first transfer the NAS data (3TB) to whichever backup solution I choose (2x 2TB WD Elements I was thinking) and then reformat NAS and use the extra drives as backup.
How does that sound? And is there a cheaper way to do it?
well, i keep 'copies' of my backup in individual HDDs… so, I got a couple of 1TB HDDs.. and one of those HDD docks like this ones (http://www.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/sata-hdd…)
they have e-sata ports, which I connect them to my laptop via e-sata. So I back up the files to the HDD, and store them offline like 'DVD/CD's. I maintain a text file index on my laptop so I know exactly which HDD I put them to.
Nothing to it really… the bonus of using this method is that I get e-sata transfer speeds which is a lot faster. The downside will probably files not being online…
Bonus is that I can encrypt entire HDDs before I use them.
Thanks! I'll look into it. It will need to work with Macs though…
Can't help you with the sales other than to say that Officeworks will price match and beat it by 5%. But I've found that reviews on hard drives are pretty inconsistent. The Amazon reviews are an example. They can rate really highly but often drives from the same family are rated really lowly. As are the inconsistencies within the same product. I can understand a certain amount of failures but seeing as WD are one of the well known brands, you'd expect better. After all, hard drives are definitely things that you cannot tolerate failures with.
Mind you I have a 1TB Elements external drive and have never had a problem with it.