Recommend me a certain external HDD

FRD · February 23, 2021

I'm looking to buy a new external HDD as a backup sooner or later, but I have noticed that the external HDD market changed a lot over the years. WD and Seagate are mostly featured now.
In here I already have a Samsung, Lacie, Verbatim and WD external drives. I'm satisfied with all of them except the Verbatim, which already got bad sectors.

With the external harddrives that I have I'm used to having a power button so I can use the drive only when needed. I personally hate the WD Elements, because it's always on and slows down my SSD boot time since it needs to starts spinning up at startup. I need to unplug it everytime I don't want to use it as the only solution.

Recommend me some external harddrives that have a working power button/switch. The capacity doesn't matter, must be 3.5" and either staying position or laying flat (I prefer the latter). I hope there are some more recommendations out there other then WD and Seagate.

Radium_Angel · February 23, 2021

13 minutes ago, FRD said:

I'm looking to buy a new external HDD as a backup sooner or later, but I have noticed that the external HDD market changed a lot over the years. WD and Seagate are mostly featured now.
In here I already have a Samsung, Lacie, Verbatim and WD external drives. I'm satisfied with all of them except the Verbatim, which already got bad sectors.

With the external harddrives that I have I'm used to having a power button so I can use the drive only when needed. I personally hate the WD Elements, because it's always on and slows down my SSD boot time since it needs to starts spinning up at startup. I need to unplug it everytime I don't want to use it as the only solution.

Recommend me some external harddrives that have a working power button/switch. The capacity doesn't matter, must be 3.5" and either staying position or laying flat (I prefer the latter). I hope there are some more recommendations out there other then WD and Seagate.

You might find buying an external enclosure, and putting your own drive in, will suit your requirements better than something over the counter.

Archer42 · February 23, 2021

10+ TB seagate backup+ hub or expansion.

For now they tend to have good non-SMR drives inside and the box itself is decent. Powered usb3 hub on "hub" version is nice to have too.

Remember, there only 3 hdd manufacturers now - seagate, toshiba and wd, everyone else is just buying hdd-s from them and putting those hdd-s in external boxes, which you can do yourself too if you want.