are Seagate external hard drives durable?

[Darkmatter]

I was reading what people said and so far the bad things with WD are:

Power supply problem, a fair amount of people were saying the computer sometimes doesn't supply the drive with enough power making it not work.
I also saw that the cable is delicate and breaks often. And some people were saying that the software made their computers freeze and malfunction. (Also that WD doesn't work with older computers?)

I had a question, Do you need to use the software that WD brings? or can you use the drive like a regular USB drive? (copy and paste files) Because I was reading that you can only use the WD drive with the software? that it won't let you just drop your files?

As for seagate, the stuff I saw was that they break more often than WD but they don't have the power supply or software issues that WD has. but they don't last as long.

That's just what I have been able to put together from many reviews I saw. I was going to get the WD but the power thing and the software problems made me doubt the purchase. I still have not bought anything

you will need to format the drive to install an operating system or to use as a slave drive for file storage. depending on the usage, you may have to set the pin to master or slave. in should auto-detect the drive. if not, you'll have to go into the bios.

 

[MPN212]

I have a 3TB Seagate with 0 problems. I have maybe 2TB of movies on it and have had it for about 2 years. I had an Iomega 1TB crash on me within 1 year and it was about half full.


Edit:
I wanted to add that I add movies often, and remove them periodically as well. I also watch movies off of it several times a week, so it's used almost daily.

 

[crows]

I have a 3TB Seagate with 0 problems. I have maybe 2TB of movies on it and have had it for about 2 years. I had an Iomega 1TB crash on me within 1 year and it was about half full.


Edit:
I wanted to add that I add movies often, and remove them periodically as well. I also watch movies off of it several times a week, so it's used almost daily.

What kind of Seagate? whats the name

 

[aaronViolator]

I just bought a WD 4tb for all my business backups and its been peachy.

I have used WD and Buffalo in the past and no problems - I would recommend using either

 

[crows]

I just bought a WD 4tb for all my business backups and its been peachy.

I have used WD and Buffalo in the past and no problems - I would recommend using either

so there's no problem with the power supply to the drives? because that's something that was bothering me about some of the reviews.

 

[MPN212]

What kind of Seagate? whats the name

On the bottom it says:
"Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive
Model SRDOOF2"

Is that what you are looking for? Sorry for the late response, threads get buried quickly on here and I don't always remember where I've posted.

 

[crows]

On the bottom it says:
"Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive
Model SRDOOF2"

Is that what you are looking for? Sorry for the late response, threads get buried quickly on here and I don't always remember where I've posted.

yeah that was my question lol you have the Expansion. (The one I Was looking to maybe get was the "Back up Plus" )

 

[MPN212]

So far so good with mine still. Good luck with your search man.