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.
Fujitzu, so far so good (3 years).
Hey Abe may Buffalo portable HDD rin. Seagate gamit ko ngayon. Bumigay din WD 160gb ko dati but due to physical abuse din yun.
Twitter: Mindanao_Bob
says:
Homemade… It’s been in use so long, I don’t even remember what brand of drive is in the case!
Fujitsu ang gamit ko 160 GB. Ok pa naman hangang ngayon, 1 year na to. I’m thinking of upgrading my HDD, 40 GB lang kasi to 120 GB. Do you think its better than adding another 500 GB external?
Twitter: roytang
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Were you able to restore the data from the WD HDD? Mine crashed a couple of weeks ago as well and I haven’t been able to recover anything yet.
seagate 1terabyte portable hdd.
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I used a lot of homemade portable hard drives in the past. Mostly Seagate (from 40gb up to 120gb back then, already disposed all of them through reselling). Due to form factor, I shifted to WD My Passport since 2006. I have 4 of them right now (a 400gb, 2 320gb, and a 240gb). I also have 2 WD MyBook with 1 terabytes each. I always bring the 400gb with me. So far, no complaints.
Seagate FreeAgent Go. I’ve had mine for 1yr and 2mos already and it’s still in working fine.
sir abe try mo po fujitsu matibay sya.. been using mine for 2 years na
well am using Transcend SSD 120gb, is generally less silent and less fragile compared to the traditional hard disk and reduce the risk of mechanical faults.
Samsung S2 500GB, my girl bought it @ SG
mine is Seagate 500gb.
almost 1year na rin…
lacie. i’ve been using a 250GB for more than a year na and it’s still as good as before. it connects pa via firewire so I get a faster data throughput.
classy pa ang lacie, and very uncommon!
Twitter: mcometa
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It has always been between WD And Seagate. But personally I prefer the Seagate FreeAgent Go! Sleek and stylish + 5 years warranty. I got the silver 250GB one.
Buffalo tong sakin, almost 1 yr old na, no probs.
Western Digital Mybook Home 500gb – until it got ondoy’ed. damn.
I’m actually looking for a 1.5TB hard drive.
Looked around in Greenhills today. Saw a Western Digital for Php 6600. Buti nalang I didn’t buy it since Abe shared that he wasn’t satisfied with it.
I think Seagate is a good deal. How much is the 1.5TB anyway?
Twitter: KelvinServigon
says:
You had your WD crashed?? tsk3.. that’s kinda… scary.. I don’t want to lose my files!
Seagate po.
Twitter: jehzlau
says:
I use WD 1TB portable wallet-size HDD ^__^
I recently made a post about it here:
http://www.gizmosync.com/unboxing-wd-my-passport-essential-the-wallet-size-1tb-portable-hd/
Twitter: ramfree17
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WD Passport. going 3 years with no problems. I recently purchased a WD 1TB Caviar for a NAS I am building with the sheeva plug but even with that capacity a proper and redundant backup of the important files should still be in place. I would be freaked out if a 320GB drive crashed without proper backups.
ciao!
Twitter: eguar51
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Fujitsu, 160GB. Been using it for almost two years now, and its durable. I have dropped it 3 times already (accidentally of course), but had no effect on performance.
i used trancend before as mini flash drive, ngCrashed din due to so much careless. Now im using WD 320gb, so far good kc 3 months plng. I wonder how long it will last.
WD 320GB. WOW dami palang naka WD!!!
Mine is a 320GB Seagate FreeagentGo, very slim, quiet and no heat build-up, im happy with this..