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External Hard Drive.
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Having bought a new Canon 7D recently :D , I now need to get an external hard drive to store my existing photos as my laptops hard drive is nearly full. I’m thinking of calling in to Maplin tomorrow to purchase a seagate external hard drive, my question is which one and what size. You can see the ones below available from Maplin.
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Dave.
Hi Dave,
I bought a Seagate Expansion Drive back in May and can highly recommend it. It’s nice and small (wallet size) and very portable.
As for size – well I guess it depends on how many photos you take and whether you save as RAW or JPEG. Personally I went with a 500GB drive and that will last me quite a while I’m sure. The only advice I can give is to decide upon a budget in advance and to buy the biggest capacity drive you can get for that money. My new 500GB cost me €55 incl postage (on eBay), but not sure what Maplin will charge.
Good luck with your purchase.
Regards,
George.
Quick point/question…..if this is going to be your main storage…do you have at least one other backup drive?
If I was you I’d nearly get two smaller sized external hard drives (rather than one large external hard drive), one for storage and one for backup.
Dave please tell me you have a backup system in place
I learned the hard way a few years back and lost a lot of images
I now have 2 external hard drives backing up all my photos
I got 2 western digital 1 tb h/drives in pc world and with price match in other stores and reserving on line the two cost my around £100 stg for both so a good deal I thinkI have 2 Western Digital drives and the newest one has me worried. Its a 2TB mybook essential,there are a lot of people on the web who have lost data as there is encryption drivers built into the enclosure so if the enclosure fails you lose everything. This seems bizarre to me that a company that has done so well for their customers could be so short sighted.
I would love someone to tell me that I have the wrong end of the stick. Unfortunately i have already used this drive so I can’t exchange it. I am seriously considering buying something else and having this as a spare spare. I have no confidence in it now.it is worth considering the speed of the drive (5400 is the baseline, 7200 is better, 10,000 is expensive) and watch out for USB3 forward compatibility
C
I would suggest a Buffalo Link station Duo – Mine is a 6TB total capacity but you can get smaller ones. You could set this up on your Broadband router or other device or to a single PC via USB.
The reason I like it is that I was able to configure it to RAID 1 – this means that the two 3TB disks mirror each other so if there is hardware failure in one disk I have the photos on the other disk.
Effective space is 3TB which seems to be space for about 300,000 photos – plenty for me !
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