A couple months ago, my 160GB WD Passport portable HDD crashed. I’m not sure what files I’ve lost along with it. I only got the chance to buy a new one last week — a Samsung S2 320GB.
I was wondering, and since I don’t trust Western Digital’s portable HDD (I still have the 500GB WD MyBook from 2 years ago), which of the current set of mobile disk drives people commonly use these days.
We’ve got a bunch of them available:
- Western Digital My Passport
- Freecom Mobile Drive XXS
- Seagate FreeAgent Go
- Samsung S2
- Iomega Portable Hard Drive
- Transcend StoreJet
- Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable HDD
- LaCie
- Buffalo MiniStation
- Fujitsu
Please submit your vote on the Poll section at the sidebar on the right or leave a comment below with your experience with mobile HDDs.
WD 250GB. Storage for my *pirated* movies/tv series. Been with him for a year now. No problems so far.
Considering of buying WD’s 1TB. Sadly, *as another comment said* it’s only available in the US atm.
seagate freeagent 320gb
For me…. all of the portable HDD are the same… But I’d rather buy the one that produces and manufacturers hard disk like Seagate and WD…… I will have to say NOOOOO to Buffalo, that is the worst HDD Ive ever encountered seriously!
EXCELLENT Philips casing, with clip on metal casing (but with plastic inner hull, where HD can be screwed in….PHP900 in virra mall, with free leather case…sweetest deal ever)
Coupled with a seagate 320 2.5.
Never doubted Seagate. No reason to.
I’ve worked with a LOT of hard disks in previous work. Seagate is the way to go.
Buffalo ministation.. i have 2, the shock resistant one and the normal one, both 500gb… can’t complain, they both work well and are very affordable.
i had maxtor one touch 4 mini 160 gb before… ok sya… stylish… metal and rubber ang balot nya… but then again i need a bigger capacity… i had to sell it…
bought a new one…
seagate freeagent go 320 gb and 500 gb…
both working fine…
ang pinakamaganda sa seagate and maxtor one touch is their 5 year warranty…
kahit masira ang portable hard disk ko sa 2013 e papalitan pa din ng seagate ang harddisk mo… free of charge and will be sent right at your doorstep…
punta ka lang sa fritz… have it rmaed and wait for several days…
di yan kaya ng western digital…
Twitter: lannbacoy
says:
WD Passport 160GB here and still working so far.
mine have 3,external HD IOMEGA 160GB,TRANSCEND 250GB,SEAGATE 500GB.. nka plug yan lahat sa loptop ko.. ok nmn..
Twitter: Teknisyan
says:
Lacie for me.. it was a gift from a cousin abroad.
Not sure if this is available in PH. Haven’t seen them on any PC Stores.. or I’m not looking hard enough.
http://teknisyan.blogspot.com
160 gb WD passport…works fine…never been dropped..1 yr since last xmas..
been asked already..
how do you recover broken wd ext hdd?
Twitter: jcv12
says:
hi, do you have reviews for 1TB or higher HDD? Im thinking of getting a WD myBook Essential but want to check out the reviews before I do. Thanks!
Twitter: jehzlau
says:
@John – i have 1TB my passport essential. sulit siya.
Pati mybook sulit na sulit din. Mag 1 year na sa akin. ^__^
Pero I suggest mag 1TB essential ka nalang kasi mas maliit at hindi na need ng power supply compared to mybook.
got the Buffalo MiniStation last month.. no problem so far:)
Twitter: eguar51
says:
I have a 500GB Toshiba Booklet right now. My previous 160GB Fujitsu has crashed earlier. Let’s see if this Toshiba lasts.
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