>Buying a portable hard drive
Why haven't you made your own backup drive using an SSD + Enclosure?
Buying a portable hard drive
Aaron Butler
Henry Cooper
because I'm a self proclaimed power user and instead use a toaster style dock to dock internal drives over a usb 3.0 connection
the good multi port docks will even let you clone drives without a computer connected. making backups that much easier
Zachary Clark
>using an SSD as a backup drive
sweet summer child
Justin Ward
Seriously. Don't keep that shit powered off for more than 6 months.
Nathan Martinez
those sata bridges they include with cheap enclosures are exactly that, cheap.
I've had three different extrernal hard drives "fail" only to find out the drive works perfectly fine in a proper dock or sata connector, its the sata to usb bridge that fails.
Lincoln Howard
What do you recommend for a good dock? And can you open multiple drives ezpz?
Isaiah Peterson
>ssd
>backup
Evan Baker
I've only used a sabrent one.
amazon.com
Its great, easy to hotswap drives and open multiple drives. mine says on amazon it only supports 4TB though so I don't want to recommend it.
the better one is cheaper. the dock is fucking great. only problem is you'll end up buying plastic cases for the loose drives anyways, its whatever
Leo Powell
>have you ever installed a hard drive in an enclosure?
What kind of retard thinks this is a thread worthy topic?
Jordan Barnes
>Why haven't you made your own backup drive using an SSD + Enclosure?
Because obviously backups go on RAID5/6 arrays, or are replicated across internal drives in some redundant storage setup.
Joseph Nguyen
Because I would rather buy something that was made for a certain purpose, instead of hacking something else to fit a use it wasn't designed for. Also I don't have the time
Jayden Gray
>hd/ssd weren't designed to be placed in enclosures
Your retarded
Kayden Wilson
>I don't have the time
Time for what? Putting an HDD inside an enclosure, which takes seconds to do?
John Long
Ive used an chink Orico dock and i suspect it killed one of my drives due to vibrations(the dock didnt secure the drive well enough.). What happened is I left the dock powered on accidently and when i finally turned it off the hdd was hot. When i took the hdd out and shoock it i could hear powder inside. So yeah hdd is kill and im not sure if i should use the dock anymore considering the hdd was already old and maybe it was dying anyway.
Brody Roberts
u use same hdd for years u keep it oriented same way throughout it live longer mechanically
u orient hdd different ways over time it wear out faster
Juan Phillips
I don't know why the hell I'd use an SSD for a backup drive when HDDs cost a tenth as much per gigabyte.
that said, does anyone know why 2.5" 3TB bare HDDs are almost impossible to find and cost around $160, while a pre-made 3TB external of the same physical size is like 80 bucks?
Samuel Gonzalez
You moved it when it still was spun up, that's probably the issue?
Nothing too special, but I guess even with a power LED to indicate it is on (you didn't see it?) shouldn't just be turned on when you don't expect it.
Either way, even the vertical HDD tray wouldn't have helped, really. But I do like it better BTW.
William Morris
Find me an 8TB 3.5" bare drive for $150 new.
Scale. People buy more externals than they do bare drives. Which is why the Easystore is unmatched in GB/$
Jaxson Diaz
BTW less crappy drives can actually usually take shocks during operation regardless, they'll even park their head when disconnected and stuff.
Some even consider the vibration in a rack and plan their head movements accordingly to not create stronger harmonic vibrations.
>Find me an 8TB 3.5" bare drive for $150 new.
Doesn't exist AFAIK. But US citizens [only] had the option to get encased 8TB external USB drives for $150-160 at best buy and so on a bunch of times.
Unfortunately that wasn't a viable deal for buying it overseas, but if I had been in the USA I'd have stocked up.
Blake Torres
>Scale. People buy more externals than they do bare drives
Nah, just bullshit market segmenting - getting the maximum price where they can.
They're produced all the same, and distributing bare drives to elsewhere where they might be in stock a little longer is not a $100 price difference. Nor is the regional price difference to places other than the USA supposed to be that high.
They're just making efficient use of all that marketing data and a duopoly situation to get more money.
Ian Watson
>tfw you realize you cloned the contents of the empty drive to the full drive
Caleb Sullivan
U speak the chingrish, u defend the chink shit, u fuck off the 4chinz.
Charles Ross
"Hearing powder" is normal for a lot of hard drives. On the aspiration holes they tend to place dessicant containers to manage the moisture inside the drive.
Charles Collins
What's a good portable HDD then?