External HDD

h4x3r

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if someone can recommend me a good reliable external hard drive with drive good encryption maybe or ill just use true crypt if bulit in protection is no good. My internal hdd just died and im so hacked off feal like killing Seagate.
I need 250GB at least and I wouldn’t mind if it’s a NAS drive but dont want to spend that much

thanks to all

H4X3R

Avoriaz

Please tell me you had all your data properly backed up.

I bought an external powered caddy and installed a 250gb IDE drive in it. You can buy IDE or SATA versions quite cheaply (try ebay) and install any compatible drive of your choice.

I think that is a cheaper and more flexible approach than buying an external drive complete, though you can probably open them up and replace the hard drive.

Is your Seagate under warranty?

everythingblogcast

Buy Spinrite 6 it can fix the hdd, if its not completely gone. Go to https://www.grc.com

IvanOpinion

PC World had an offer on a Maxtor 320Gb at just under £70 ... you should still be able to get 320Gb for under £100... don't know if they have any left though. I have been using Truecrypt for quite a while now and it has been an excellent product ... I can also recommend axcrypt as well

Ivan

h4x3r

im not going to bother it comes with 5 year warrenty im just going to buy another one i really cant be bother sending it back etc etc i might might the Western Digital My Book but i just need something reliable im lucky im do daily back ups

albertross_2

Are you saying that the hard disk in an external enclosure died? Have you tried shoving it in a PC?