Don't ever buy a Seagate GoFlex backup drive

[risome]

No, I don't think portable, as it had it's own power supply. Well, I'm disappointed to know this about failure rates, but I'm running out of room - I say I am, I have 30GB left,on the main drive. The wave files eat it up like nobody's business. I guess the only super safe thing to do is backup on DVD/CD because I have those and the one's I made 10 years ago still work.

My mate Pinky says back up to Cds and DVD and keep then in a portable plastic tub cause if disaster strikes ie a fire flood(heaven forbid)(f@#k i got all religious and i am an atheist) you can grab you cd/dvd tub and chuck it out the window closely followed by yourself, would not want to try that with any hard drive

[osiris]

LOL- I have all mine in this big flexi/rolly suitcase backpack thing and that's exactly what I plan to do first.

[highkoo]

Slappa cases FTW.

http://www.slappa.com/

[rifftrax]

Maybe I'm just incredibly lucky but I've never ever had a hard-drive die on me lol.

[Jace-BeOS]

I've had lots of drives. I tend to buy Seagate only, out of old habit from SCSI days. Doesn't Seagate own Western Digital and Maxtor? Aren't they just the same now?

I've had all brands fail though I'm particularly irritated that they fail more from storage and disuse than from constant use. Two WD 500 Gig drives came out of storage louder and one was failing. I've not found bad sectors on the other yet but it's much louder. A Seagate in an older G4 Mac was click of death dead recently, too, yet I've drives much older that are still fine.. I've old Seagate SCSI drives from the real old days that sound horrific but work. The most failures I saw in the old days were Maxtors and IBMs (in fact, a few older Macs with IBMs were prett consistently noisy and failure prone). Though I have warranty replaced two SCSI Seagates back in the day. It's all pretty random.