What would be better (faster and better reliability) 1. Backing up to this external driveor2. Backing up to an additional internal hard drive
1800852
Another internal should generally be faster, as it's not hindered by USB speeds. But whatever burns put your main drive is likely to kill the secondary drive,too. The external is good for portability, but tend to have a shorter lifespan compared to a internal drive. ( That's why people say "mine has lasted over a whole year now". My current HDD is over 4 years old now.
1800853
I prefer the external drive because you can backup different computers and use like pen drive, plus you can stored the external drive in different place to the computer.
1800854
The golden rules for any backup are the data relocation (save the data to another device). That means that backing up to an additional internal HD of your same device (e.g. a RAID storage technology) it's not the best choose for me though it's automatic. If you need a quick, simple and portable backup an external HD is the good choose. Otherwise if you want spend a little more time in configurations, you can try to buy a NAS device where you can remotely save ever you want, maybe configuring also some automatic jobs for synchronization.
1800855
Depending on the amount of files that you want to back up I would use this one. I have pictures, MS Word, pdf, and other important documents backed up on mine.
1800856
Personally, I'm more comfortable with the external. If my regular internal hard drive crashes, I can use my external to get anything I need on another computer before (if) I hand it over to the repair people fixing the main drive. I guess if you can remove your broken hard drive and pop in a new one easily, that's not so much of an issue. But I'm a pessimist and tend to think things like "what if my computer got so hot that both internal hard drives failed?"
1800857
You should back up to an external device often and keep that device somewhere other than where your computer is. The point being if there is a fire or other disaster, you still have a backup of your files.
1423746
If you purchase the diskless version, you will need to purchase and install storage for this device in the form of a standard 3.5 in. SATA internal PC hard drive. You can add up to two drives. You can attach your USB drive to this device for redundant back up of the device in case the disk(s) or system should ever fail.
2084772
Use the USB and a USB external hard drive. WD has one with 2TB I picked up during Black Friday sales.
1090938
I have the MCE drive. It's much faster than the Apple drive & works better. A no-brainer.
145169
If you have 2 internal drives now you would have to replace one of them with the SSD drive unless you run the SSD Externally .
2000446
I think it has to be connetced to your phone in order to backup. I don't have info regarding use with external hard drive. Sorry.
1819010
Sure, you can use an external enclosure and use it as a backup drive. Just remember that it's a 2.5 inch drive (like in laptops), not a regular 3.5 inch (like in a pc).Cheers
580083
This is my first experience with an external drive. I've had no problem with this item. I do suggest you get a larger capacity drive as the prices have been falling lately on the external drives.
240457
I am really sure but, you would probably lose 3-4 GB of data because of manufacture formatting, I would suggest go with 2TB.
200504
Sure. But if you are backing-up your OS, you should be doing that to a second physical internal hard drive.
2139423
I agree with Tom. You shouldn't need to use an extra storage device unless your primary one is full.
1819013
Yeah it could provided you have the right cables, however if you want to backup your files I'd recommend a regular 1 TB hard drive since this would be a very overpriced external hard drive. You can use a USB 3.0 external hard drive if you really want fast speeds and they'll have more space than this drive to boot.
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The short answer is, "it depends." The dependent factors are how much data you are going to back up, whether or not you have a SATA connection for the drive and how many generations of backup you want to maintain. With so many backup alternatives available, and for the price, you might consider one of the larger-capacity Western Digital USB-attached backup drives instead. The only reason I bought this drive is because I needed to repair an old desktop PC. It was the lowest cost alternative available.
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I used it as an external drive. Even if you can take the HD out, you still need a sata connecting cable ($8.66 for 2). It has a USB-3 cable which is faster than the conventional USB-2. I wonder why you would pay the price of an external drive and use it as an internal drive, which usually costs less for the same capacity. I bought a WD 4 TB internal drive as D:
1128747
In general , I prefer WD over Seagate. Personally, I have had more Seagate failures . The price is also very fair for the WD blue.
696014
You will definitely need a 2.5" drive. If you are looking for more speed, choose a smaller SSD drive or at least upgrade to a 7200 rpm drive. If you need a lot more space, but not constant access to your data then you might consider a fast external USB drive.
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You cannot add a second drive, but you can easily replace the drive with one up to two terabytes.You can also back up recorded events to an external drive via USB, including flash drives or your computer, but realize that this is not "adding" a drive - it's backing up existing events.