07-14-2008, 03:44 PM | #1 | ||
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External Hard Drive
The second hard drive in my home computer is making horrible noises, so I want to back up all of my stuff (yeah I know, I should've had a backup in place already)...
I'm looking to get an external drive to keep as a backup of files, and was wondering if anyone had experience with this Western Digital: http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product....4298*&topnav=# |
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07-14-2008, 04:00 PM | #2 |
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Yep, I have the 500gig My Book. Works great and have had no problems.
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07-14-2008, 06:42 PM | #3 |
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I have the same, love it.
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07-14-2008, 08:38 PM | #4 |
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So... is there some lock against copying .ISO files? I bought this thing, and when I try copying a .ISO file, it tells me there's not enough space (which there is)... other files seem to be working.
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07-14-2008, 08:41 PM | #5 |
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Dola,
It seems to be .ISO files over 4GB in size? |
07-14-2008, 09:35 PM | #6 |
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You probably have it formatted as FAT, if you want files over 4GB you need NTFS on there.
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07-14-2008, 09:39 PM | #7 |
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Huh, never heard of anything like that. I dont have any .ISO files of that size to test out. All I can say is that I have never had any sort of trouble moving any files over.
Edit- Well never mind, looks like Fidatelo found the problem. Last edited by Rich1033 : 07-14-2008 at 09:40 PM. |
07-14-2008, 10:09 PM | #8 |
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That's weird. Why does it come as default FAT?? I'll have to look into this.
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07-14-2008, 10:16 PM | #9 |
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I just started a similar thread a few weeks ago. I picked up a Western Digital 500 GB MyBook to use with Time Machine. I clicked one button and that was it. Smooth sailing ever since.
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07-14-2008, 10:38 PM | #10 |
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Looks like I have to format it to NTFS. I just find it weird that it came as FAT by default!
I looked at the one-touch software that came with it, but I don't want to use it as a regular backup thing. Just kind of a place to manually put some files. |
07-14-2008, 11:05 PM | #11 |
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They come as FAT to be compatible with older operating systems. It is frustrating though, the first time I got a drive I did the same thing, just started copying files onto it without even thinking. Several weeks, and about 150GB of data later, I tried a 4+GB file and couldn't get it to go. At that point I had nowhere else to offload the data, so I was stuck. That drive is still my main personal storage drive, and still on FAT, and I hate it for that.
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07-15-2008, 08:35 AM | #12 |
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Thanks for the answer, I don't think I'd even bother to check for the format. You'd think drives now wouldn't care for the older OS.
I copied a bunch of data from a dying drive at home, but luckily it's not dead (yet) and I can just format the My Book and do the copy again. |
07-15-2008, 08:43 AM | #13 |
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Microsoft's eternal curse is backwards compatibility.
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07-15-2008, 12:52 PM | #14 |
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09-05-2008, 06:37 PM | #15 |
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Bump,
I'm looking to get a large, external hard drive. Is the consensus still that the Western Digital My Book drives are the best out there? |
09-05-2008, 07:16 PM | #16 |
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09-05-2008, 08:26 PM | #17 |
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Western Digital, or Seagate are the way to go. Those are two I recommend for costumers at were I work. Both have 5 year limited warranties, which is as good as anybodies. I got a 160GB Seagate for my birthday and I've had no real issue with it.
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09-05-2008, 10:23 PM | #18 |
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I am happy with mine so far.
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09-09-2008, 12:25 AM | #19 |
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If anyone's looking for cheap alternatives, I got this drive from NewEgg to use with TimeMachine and it's worked out great.
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