[ale] External disk recommendation

[Raylynn Knight]

rLook for a Hitachi or Toshiba as they top recent drive reliability statistics (see Backblaze report from May 2016) and are often cheaper than others.

Ray Knight


> On May 19, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is a resend. For some reason the mailer said it would wait a couple days to resend and I told my wife I'd try to order the drive sooner.
> 
> 
> My wife has an old Mac and I'm looking at a ~2 TB or so external drive
> for her. Looking at the Seagate Expansion 2TB Desktop External Hard
> Drive USB 3.0 (STEB2000100)
> (http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB2000100/dp/B00TKFEE9E).
> 
> Her computer is USB 2, and older iMac. Is there a better drive in the
> $100 range? Speed isn't as important as reliability.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Leam
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