I am looking to buy the additional external HD for back up, can any one please recommend me, thinking 1 or 2 TB
1. the good brand that value for money and last longer ?
2. the good good time to buy when shops are often offer big heavy discout ?
Thank you guys
While portable USB hard drives are ok if you never move them around
I generally recommend staying away from them if you do car them, as if the usb controller fails its often difficult to recover data from as they don't usually have a sata connector inside while the bigger external desktop drives do(meaning you can plug it into any pc still)
also if you can afford it $/TB a 6tb is the sweet spot atm
https://pricespy.co.nz/category.php?k=360&sort=property%3A64…
Thank you Huntakillaz, can I please ask you, if you don't store file on External HDD, where do you normally store the file ? I don't take my external HDD out. only just for storage as my notebook storage not big enough….
I have a external Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive 8TB which i plug in and backup to now and then. I dare not leave it connected, in case a power surge or something causes data loss.
If you need more space then i suggest a large drive for backup and a smaller one to use daily.
Or if your notebook can take larger ssd/nvme drives then do a upgrade
I usually get my drives from amazon as it's cheapest especially during black Friday/lightning deal days.
Best to keep an eye on ozbargin for deals to come up
What drive do you have in your notebook atm?
use crystal disk info or hwinfo portable versions to see its details
Thank you Huntakillaz, mine is 256 SSD, small for HP notebook, that's why I always use external HDD, and I currently use WD 2TB, bought it few years ago for over $150, and it's going to be full in few months time.. that's why I ask around on when likely to have sale.. and where to buy the best deal.. thank you Huntakillaz
@budget: of you can hold out 2 more months we'll have black friday sales in oct
Also keep tabs on https://www.ozbargain.com.au/cat/computing
for deals
Im trying to find deals on a 10-14tb haven't seen any decent deals for awhile. nothing on amazon either. picked up a 12tb last year for $340 should have gotten another one at the time
Hi wellydeal where do you buy 12 TB for $340… can I please ask ? very cheap…I will keep an eye out for that too….
It was off amazon last july/august. they were on sale at the time. that was $340 delivered. where as now they're $495 delivered for the same one
5TB for $170 on the market
Here you go, just saw this yesterday when browsing The Warehouse site. USB 3.0, 2TB, good brand. $89 or $79 if you use the $10 off $75 orders giveit coupon available through the Warehouse app. Plus you can use a free shipping code or get free shipping with app purchases for a limited time.
https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/wd-elements-portable-2tb-us…