Portable External Hard Drives

[steveb]

Looking around at the external hard drives and there are various brands and prices. The lowest priced is Acer. Anyone use Acer portable external hard drives and would Seagate or other higher priced ones be better? Are there quality differences or just brand, price and guarantee length?

[lopburi3]

I am using a 3,290 baht Acer 1tb 3.5 inch. Removed the software and have been using several months 24 hours a day and very happy with it. But if it fails will not be so happy.

[Cuban]

The lowest priced is Acer. Anyone use Acer portable external hard drives and would Seagate or other higher priced ones be better? Are there quality differences or just brand, price and guarantee length?

I have recently worked on (repaired) a friend's Acer PC, not particully bad but I noted it was of cheap construction.

I use a Seagate 320 Gig Ex-USB drive, made in Thailand, good service for about three years or so now.

Not sure how confident you are in any guarantee length if your first point of contact will be a typical Thai IT shop. If this is a matter of importance for you - then the quaility of the shop should be investigated above that of the hardware that they sell.

HTH.

[MickeyM]

New Samsung S2 drives (up to 500GB) are quite nice - 3 Year warranty. 3650b at Pantip for 500GB.

[basjke]

The lowest priced is Acer. Anyone use Acer portable external hard drives and would Seagate or other higher priced ones be better? Are there quality differences or just brand, price and guarantee length?

I have recently worked on (repaired) a friend's Acer PC, not particully bad but I noted it was of cheap construction.

I use a Seagate 320 Gig Ex-USB drive, made in Thailand, good service for about three years or so now.

Not sure how confident you are in any guarantee length if your first point of contact will be a typical Thai IT shop. If this is a matter of importance for you - then the quaility of the shop should be investigated above that of the hardware that they sell.

HTH.

Why worry about the quality of the shop.Make sure it has a synnex or Dcom warranty sticker and you can bring it in at any of the many branches they have all over thailand if you have a problem.

[Heng]

Been using Western Digital Passports for sometime... 160, 250, 320 gb drives, several of each. Have yet to have a failure yet. The key is of course not to value the drive more than the data (assuming that that's the case of course), and regularly retire the drives and replace them.