External Hard Drive Recommendations?

benjamwes · May 15, 2013

I may be looking at getting an external hard drive soon so was wondering if anyone has any recommendations?

I am looking for a cheap 1TB hard drive to back up my new iMac to (when I get one

) and also one to save videos and Adobe Premiere / After Effects files to.

Thanks for any advice!

rkaufmann87 · May 15, 2013

benjamwes said:
I may be looking at getting an external hard drive soon so was wondering if anyone has any recommendations?

I am looking for a cheap 1TB hard drive to back up my new iMac to (when I get one ) and also one to save videos and Adobe Premiere / After Effects files to.

Thanks for any advice!

EHD's are like anything else, you get what you pay for. If you are storing important data then you risk losing it without a good backup plan. IMHO I'd recommend quality within reason. I'd recommend OWC (http://www.macsales.com) Mercury Elite Pro series.

firedept · May 15, 2013

I use G-Technology drives. They are not cheap though. I would not suggest going with the cheapest drives if you value your data. I use my external drives in conjunction with Carbon Copy Cloner. This then allows me to boot from my external drive should my internal drive fail. A cheap solution is a risky thing in my opinion.

ToomeyND · May 15, 2013

Costco sells 2 TB WD Mybooks for about $90. I'm happy with it as a backup disk. It's just for time machine, so I don't care that it's slow. Although, in the last 6 months or so, they've been selling USB 3.0 versions. Mine's only 2.0.

Tulani · May 15, 2013

try WD my passport

GGJstudios · May 15, 2013

I've been very pleased with both of these models in various capacities, from Other World Computing (OWC):

OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro..........................OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro

benjamwes · May 17, 2013

Thanks for the help everyone, I'll try to get the best I can but I'm on a very low budget so I guess a cheap backup is better than no backup!

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