What would be better (faster and better reliability) 1. Backing up to this external drive or 2. Backing up to an additional internal hard drive
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You have two internal hard drives? Not many computers have that. It wouldn't be possible to say which is the quickest without knowing the transfer speeds of both drives. It may not be a significant difference anyways. The edge the external drive would have is that you can easily and quickly remove it and connect it to another computer if something catastrophic happened to your computer. Another thing- as far as I can tell there was no backup software included for the Passport so you'll need to rely on your computer's backup software. That's probably not a factor. In the end it's probably apples and oranges whether you go with an internal or external drive. Personally, I prefer the portability of an external drive. Good luck with your purchase.
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External hard drive is only use for backup, but you need to purchase a internal hard drive to install to record, only with a internal hard drive inside you can only use external hard drive to backup, thanks.
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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.
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When you mention over 1 million files I don't think you wold need to back these up on a regular basis. In this case it is best to use software that will only backup files that have changed since the last backup. The initial backup will take quite awhile to perform but any subsequent backups should be quick. So, as mentioned here, an external USB drive can be connected to the WD My Book and backed up. If you provide more details it would help.
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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.
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I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.
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I bought a Seagate 1tB about two years ago. I've had to have it replaces twice already and I'm looking for a third replacement. I still have a 150Gb WD drive that I bought nearly a decade ago. In my experience, I would go with the WD... I'm about to buy this one.
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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:
2017207
Depends on the amount of data that you are backing up. Otherwise you can use it back up from multiple PCs
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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.
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Yes I'm running two hard drives. If you want more it would have to be an external.
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OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
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External drives are better in quality and durability. I have both and prefer the external.
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I agree with Tom. You shouldn't need to use an extra storage device unless your primary one is full.
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Your could do if the Flash drive is big enough. Personally I use an external hard drive to back up data. and just use the flash drives for portable data. If you want to back up more than just data [software/ settings] then you would need disc replicating software.
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if you want tons of storage and ultimate reliability, use this Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW, I just got it for a little over $500 on Amazon. if you dont want to spend that much money than I used WD Blue 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD10JPVT. Both seem to work fine.
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Good question. My IT brother says to use 2 external hard drives & back each of them up periodically, but keep one off-site. Other opinions/ideas?