dbcman48

I'm loooking for an external hard to back up my photos.
What name brand would be a good unit.
I had a Western Digital and it fried my USB port with a power surge.

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jcjacob

If you want to stay with an external USB drive, the Seagate FreeAgent and Maxtor OneTouch seem to consistently get the most favorable user reviews.

I personally a NAS (Network Attached Storage) disk solution, the DS210j from Synology. Since the drives are attached to the network, there is no danger of feedback or surges affecting my PC. I have 2 2TB disks in the diskstation in a Raid 1 configuration, so that even if one of the disks fails, the data is all still recoverable from the other disk.

Before I moved to the NAS, I was using a Maxtor OneTouch which worked very well for my needs at the time.

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Ken-L

I have 4 LaCie USB HDs stacked next to my computer, they look good, stack well, and perform flawlessly.

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fotomavin

I have 2 LaCie's also. I like the design by Porsche.