Bomo.is.ooc
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While I consider myself generally lucky in the terms of having electronics die on me, I have absolutely no luck with external hard drives. I've owned two, a Seagate Freeagent M-series and a Western Digital Mybook, and they've both died on me after about 6 or 7 months of use. Being a student, my primary computer rig is my macbook pro. Due to a couple factors, I can't easily use a desktop along with my notebook (the main factor being extra cash...).
This is the point in the post where these two previous things are combined into a problem/question:
I'm very rapidly running out of space for music on my single hard drive in my notebook, and have decided that the best option is to test my luck again with an external hard drive. The first question is which one would head-fi recommend? Also, would it be recommended that I store my music and play it directly off the external disk, or would the strain of the amount of run time on it cause another premature death? Are there any kind of general external disk rules that I should know (other than the normal hard disk / electronics upkeep stuff)?
I should note that the Mybook by WD was one of the original ones in that line, so there may now be improvements I don't know about where as the Seagate is a much more recent purchase. If WD has vastly improved their external line, or if I just happened to buy a lemon, I'd be willing to give them another shot. The same goes for Seagate, though with a bit more hesitation mainly out of bad blood due to the turmoil of the more recent death.
I think this is the best forum for this post, but I could be wrong...
I should add that for space, I'd prefer something around 320gb or higher, but I figure that the size doesn't matter a whole bunch when considering the line of products from a maker.
This is the point in the post where these two previous things are combined into a problem/question:
I'm very rapidly running out of space for music on my single hard drive in my notebook, and have decided that the best option is to test my luck again with an external hard drive. The first question is which one would head-fi recommend? Also, would it be recommended that I store my music and play it directly off the external disk, or would the strain of the amount of run time on it cause another premature death? Are there any kind of general external disk rules that I should know (other than the normal hard disk / electronics upkeep stuff)?
I should note that the Mybook by WD was one of the original ones in that line, so there may now be improvements I don't know about where as the Seagate is a much more recent purchase. If WD has vastly improved their external line, or if I just happened to buy a lemon, I'd be willing to give them another shot. The same goes for Seagate, though with a bit more hesitation mainly out of bad blood due to the turmoil of the more recent death.
I think this is the best forum for this post, but I could be wrong...
I should add that for space, I'd prefer something around 320gb or higher, but I figure that the size doesn't matter a whole bunch when considering the line of products from a maker.