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External Hard Drives

I've been looking at reviews for external hard drives for about an hour now and I can't decide what brand or specific one is the most reliable. I just want one that'll last for at least two years. Size - 500MB to 1TB.
So if someone has experience with these, please give me your opinions.
And if this isn't I'm the right place, I'm sorry.
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

the best brands nowadays are WD and samsung.
buy a internal HDD and a cheap external case, you will save money.

Oh wow I didn't know you could do that, I'll look into it.
Thank you very much.
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

WD for sure

mbrotman said:
WD for sure
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+1. I have 3 of them
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I currently have a seagate 1TB ext. that I have owned for almost 3 years now and no issues. I also have a Thermaltake dual bay sata hdd apparatus that connects via usb or esata. Then I have a 2.5" sata silicone sleeve/adapter for laptop sized HDD's Works good too.

Porobu said:
the best brands nowadays are WD and samsung.
buy a internal HDD and a cheap external case, you will save money.
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That's what I always do.
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Seagate Freeagent Go 500gb, very cheap, I have it.
bdw.
NUNsLAUGHTER92 said:
Size - 500MB to 1TB.
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=S .. Are you sure?

I have a seagate 2TB, But not cheap, Wom,I'm so crazy

Hard drive pricess have gone up after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and alot of hard drives on the market right now are older models of the hard drives because they are straggling to resume making of current/updated drives. I always do what the people above have done, buy an internal drive with a cheap enclosure. Samsung is the best brand I have always used, the 103sj is the best performance to price ratio drive i've seen the past year. I also always partition my drives with more the one partition.

xasd said:
I have a seagate 2TB, But not cheap, Wom,I'm so crazy
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500gb for some 250SR and 66$.. cheap for me... o.o
.dont be crazyy ..
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Sure, buy a good internal WD and a 3"5 case, you will save money

go for WD green line 2TB with a power supply. it's a bit heavy but it's durable as hell and it's about 100€

I have a 500gb Toshiba external, its compact and has been very reliable.

An SSD is overkill for external storage. Just stick with a mechanical hard drive
I personally recommend Samsung drives first, then Seagate, then Western Digital. WDs have been the least reliable for me personally, although a lot swear by them.
And definitely get a case and drive separately if you know how to use a screwdriver. You'll save a few quid!

Samsung, Western Digital and Seagate are good HDD brands

mikebzh44 said:
Sure, buy a good internal WD and a 3"5 case, you will save money
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It's true, but when I was solving same question, I wasn't lucky. I've tried 2 or 3 cases and all of them were somehow buggy. So you have to search carefully for the people's opinions about selected model for not to loose your data.
Now I have WD Passport @ USB 3

WD or Seagate, the only samsung i had was a bit laggy and sometime it disconnect from the computer, without me doing anything. It was a 2,5" 256GB but i do not remember the fabric code.

5 in 1 Card Reader for tab 10.1

There's a handful of these usb+5-1 card readers on amazon/ebay wherever you look. I was wondering if anyone has one of these, and if so how does it work. If not, i'm planning on getting one (feel like it's a good investment.. especially for 5 or 7 bucks).
http://www.amazon.com/QQ-Tech®-Came...3VI6/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1331906071&sr=8-6
I picked this one because it has prime shipping, that's the only reason why. I also ordered another one because it looks a bit shorter. I don't know if it's picture angles or what, but here's the url to that one too.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-CONNECT...6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1331911494&sr=1-6
I'll post back on this. Some are saying it's very delicate, or it gets in the way.. but I don't feel like I'm going to be leaving this in the tab very long. Just to pull things from the SD to the tab. We'll see. Hopefully I can drop a review of what I think.
Hope to get back after testing it a little.
Testing:
Firstly, I apologize if this review isn’t in some sort of coherent format. This is my first review of a product... be gentle.
Here’s some pictures so you can compare the two.
Sorry for low lighting, but i think it's good enough so you can see the difference.
I will refer to the fatter Card readers as the QQ, and the slimmer one as the ATC.
Connection and Aesthetics
Off the bat, the ATC one is much thinner. Both of the readers do not work with the ViperTek case I have unless the part holding the tab is folded back. Not a big deal for me, but I though I'd mention that. I have been treating the connectors like small children. The comments of "fragile connections" has got me worried. I can see fragileness on the QQ connector, but on the ATC one, the connection doesn't move around too much. When I plug the ATC one into the tablet, it feels like it locks better than the QQ one.
ATC connector box : weight Approx 18g - Size Approx 48*30*11.5mm
QQ doesn't state the specs, but it's longer and fatter. The width of the 2 are about the same.
Rundown of the QQ Reader:
The QQ reader has a tiny toggle on the right side of the connector to swap between USB and SD. It comes with a clear cap to protect your connection from bending in transportation.
One bad thing I noticed when testing the QQ reader is, it pretty much eats your Micro SD card when you plug it in. The first time I plugged in the reader with an SD card, I got the message at the bottom. The reader had successfully read the card. After that I didn’t know what else to really check. I popped open a File explorer and noticed a new file in the root called usbdrive. I opened that and lo-and-behold, the contents of my sd card showed up. To remove it... I didn’t know what to really do. There is no unmounting option or anything, so I backed out of the file explorer and yanked the whole connector out. Needless to say, I got an error saying “lost connection” and android.media crashed. I plugged the reader back in to see if it still read, and it popped up like it did previously. This time, I removed the SD card first. This stated that the media is removed, and everything seemed ok. Now getting to the bad part. I swapped the connector over to USB, and plugged it in with a usb drive. I think it read once, then after that the QQ connector was dead. I haven’t been able to get it to read cards or USB devices since I swapped the toggle. I emailed the company and see if a replacement gets sent out.
Update: Contacted amazon and just got a refund on the QQ connector. Marked it as defective, since it doesn't really read cards anymore...
Pros: Comes with a cap to protect the connector
Cons: It broke,
USB to SD toggle is very hard to switch on the fly,
Bulky,
Feels Fragile,
Eats your microSD card,
Doesn’t fit well with leather folding cases
I’d stay away from this one and pay a bit more for a better one.
Rundown of the ATC Reader:
The first thing I noticed about this was the lack of usb/sd toggle switch. I connected it to the tab and plugged in a microSD card (plugs in gold sides up). The MicroSD card sticks out half way, and gives a nice click feel, letting me know it was indeed connected. It’s very easy to remove the microSD compared to the QQ reader, and just based off of that I prefer this one over the QQ one. Plugging this into the tab, it suffers the same out of place symptoms as the QQ reader, but I don’t plan on using it connected too long. I plugged in the microSD card and opened up a file explorer. I was able to see the contents again in root\usbdrive. I unplugged the card, then the connector and received no errors. I plugged the connector back in, and tried a usb drive. Again, the connector picked it right up. I decided to plug in both microSD and USB to see what happened, the connector seems to choose microSD as a default, if both are plugged in. After much disconnecting and reconnecting, it’s still working.
Pros: Slim,
No tiny toggle,
Cards stick out allowing easy retrieval,
Feels more sturdy when plugging in,
Works
Cons: Doesn’t work well with leather folding cases,
No protector for connection
Conclusion:
If you’re looking for a card reader/ usb reader, and you’re not ready to dish out 60 bucks for the official samsung ones, I’d look into the ATC Card reader. It’s slim, and seems to work.

Nice post man i was actually just looking into getting one of these. The thing is i have 2 cameras one uses the normal sd memory card but the other uses the a xD card. Was wondering if you came across any that could read xD cards as well as sd.

the smaller one seems great. too bad i only have the big one.
but i found this today: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Hub-OTG-Conn...Cs_Zubehör&hash=item3cc263be5f#ht_4578wt_1139
this looks awesome and is pretty flexible with that cable.

Good external storage options?

As I'm sure many of you feel, 16GB isn't really enough for me. I was wondering if there are any cases with built-in USB storage which could be mounted on the Galaxy Nexus. I could get an adaptor and plug in a USB stick, but I want something I can easily take with me everywhere. Anyone know of anything like this?

duraaraa said:
As I'm sure many of you feel, 16GB isn't really enough for me. I was wondering if there are any cases with built-in USB storage which could be mounted on the Galaxy Nexus. I could get an adaptor and plug in a USB stick, but I want something I can easily take with me everywhere. Anyone know of anything like this?
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Best thing would be is a USB OTG. But you would need root access.
It's just a cable, not much more to carry I guess.

And you'll want the USB stick mount app (free) to get access to that memory stick.
Honestly, nothing is is going to be easier, smaller or lighter to carry around than a USB stick and a short adapter. I use it. What else did you have in mind?

Actually, why not use dropbox? or something similar.
all your music stored on google music would save a few gigs.
important things or whatever in a dropbox.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1587019

Your situation is easily fixed by cloud storage
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Cloud storage is good and all, but only practical if you have a data plan. Some people, like me, rock their GNex on voice and Wifi only, and do not have a data plan (too expensive, I'm a student). Therefore, cloud storage would only work for things that I would not need to have on hand all the time (or you would need Wifi all the time). However, that being said, I have so far never had to use more than half of the 16gb on my nexus.

Consider investing in a Seagate GoFlex Satellite. Works with all phones, holds 500GB, and won't eat up your phone battery as much as a USB drive.

Meenova microSD card reader for Nexus 5

So I got one of the Meenova microSD card readers, and I am finding it works pretty well. I have a 16GB Nexus 5 so don't really have alot of room for media, and I have a very large offline collection of video and music files, and needed some way to use them with the phone without using up my app space. The Meenova fit the bill.
The unit comes with a USB interface that essentially turns your microSD into a USB flash drive. It also comes with a keychain latch so that you can keep the unit on your keychain, and simply pop it in when you need it. It is quite small and doesn't protrude to the point that the phone is difficult to handle. Much better than an OTG with a cable.
I am using Nexus Media Importer since I am not rooted, and am using a 32GB card in it. The website says that if you are rooted you can use StickMount and access SDXC 64GB cards. My 64GB card wouldn't work with Nexus Media Importer as is, as it only supports FAT32 and not exFAT. That's a software issue, though, not a hardware issue.
This little unit solves a big problem for me and gives me at least a reasonably sized media library on the go that I can't have due to the phone's limitations. I can now carry a dozen or so HD movies along with a pretty decent music library and not eat into the phone's storage at all. For the price you can't lose; it is possibly the best $12 I ever spent.
http://www.meenova.com/

already 2 threads about it here and here

Yup, I have one and it's pretty awesome. It works on my Moto X natively, but works just fine with stickmount on my N5. One of the best accessories I've ever bought.

Yeah there's already two threads about this. But just so you know you can format the 64 gb as FAT32 and according to other people that works.

Best External Hard Drive/Flash Drive for One?

I'm looking for something very mobile, rugged, fast, awesome, with 64g to 1t of storage. Any good recommendations? I would prefer a small, slick flash drive type device, without the cord or bulkiness of the many I 've researched. Ideas?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417268
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As above, I also bought one for my M7 as 32gb just wasn't enough. Easy to lose but comes with a keychain. I managed to lose the cap after a few days (as with most USB sticks I've had).