SEAGATE Portable drive problems

[RandomFlipper]

I've just bought a portable SEAGATE EXPANSION 3TB drive for personal file backup a few months ago and i've had no problems with it... untill now. The entire file system got corrupted for no apparent reason , i've always ejected the drive safely and it's never suffered any physical shocks. I have tried repairing the file system with CHKDSK and it worked ( check attached file for logs ) , however now i don't really trust this drive anymore . Should i buy a new internal drive to replace this external drive , just to be safe ? Perhaps a Western Digital RED ? (  goo.gl/Rc6H2l  ) I've heard they are quite good for backing up files.

SEAGATE CHKDSK LOGS.txt

[Praxis]

Depending on the warranty you could always try returning it, so long as you've got somewhere to store the files until you get a new external drive.

 

Western Digital's Red drives are specialised for RAID setups. If you're not going to use RAID for backup and are just going to set up a manual backup or use it similarly to a external drive you can save yourself some money by going with a WD Blue or Green. Those drives are normally cheaper.

[RandomFlipper]

5 hours ago, Praxis said:

Depending on the warranty you could always try returning it, so long as you've got somewhere to store the files until you get a new external drive.

 

Western Digital's Red drives are specialised for RAID setups. If you're not going to use RAID for backup and are just going to set up a manual backup or use it similarly to a external drive you can save yourself some money by going with a WD Blue or Green. Those drives are normally cheaper.

Thanks for the advice!