01-29-2019, 03:09 PM
Glad you bumped this thread @youssefbasha
This gives me an excuse to add a really great link that @rudra posted in the Shoutbox. There was an excellent discussion about external hard drives with @"Hidden Refuge", @TrK, @rudra and others and I was sad that it wasn't in the Forum.
Here is the link @rudra posted:
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1750...ard-drives
You can start to read the discussion in the Shoutbox from this point forwards:
https://post4vps.com/index.php?action=sh...1#sid13061
Ironically I'd just purchased a 3TB WD external hard disk, happy with myself as it was on special. Now I understand why it was on special. When I returned to Carrefour (major chain of superstores in the UAE) to get another disk as a backup for the WD, I learned that the configuration of all of the hard disks was not the same. You for example get Toshiba Canvio Basic and Toshiba Canvio Advanced. Toshiba Canvio Advanced includes software for securing the hard disk. You can read more about the models here:
https://betanews.com/2018/01/09/toshiba-...rd-drives/
in the end I selected Toshiba Canvio basic range for 2 TB. As Carrefour had a special for this one that made it economical to get vs the more expensive models. I didn't feel I really needed added security. Only security I want is that the hard disk is going to last for a while.
This gives me an excuse to add a really great link that @rudra posted in the Shoutbox. There was an excellent discussion about external hard drives with @"Hidden Refuge", @TrK, @rudra and others and I was sad that it wasn't in the Forum.
Here is the link @rudra posted:
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1750...ard-drives
You can start to read the discussion in the Shoutbox from this point forwards:
https://post4vps.com/index.php?action=sh...1#sid13061
Hidden Refuge Wrote:Lost 1.5 TB of PS4 game backups. Thanks Western Digital.
Ironically I'd just purchased a 3TB WD external hard disk, happy with myself as it was on special. Now I understand why it was on special. When I returned to Carrefour (major chain of superstores in the UAE) to get another disk as a backup for the WD, I learned that the configuration of all of the hard disks was not the same. You for example get Toshiba Canvio Basic and Toshiba Canvio Advanced. Toshiba Canvio Advanced includes software for securing the hard disk. You can read more about the models here:
https://betanews.com/2018/01/09/toshiba-...rd-drives/
in the end I selected Toshiba Canvio basic range for 2 TB. As Carrefour had a special for this one that made it economical to get vs the more expensive models. I didn't feel I really needed added security. Only security I want is that the hard disk is going to last for a while.