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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #121 on: April 28, 2013, 05:12:08 PM »
Are the WD my book good drives?

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #122 on: April 28, 2013, 05:13:20 PM »
Are the WD my book good drives?
i find them to be the best IMHO
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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #124 on: April 28, 2013, 05:17:58 PM »
i find them to be the best IMHO
Compared to what? Whats so great about them?

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #125 on: April 28, 2013, 05:32:59 PM »
Compared to what? Whats so great about them?

Then whats a good external 3 TB drive (USB 3) drive?

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #126 on: April 28, 2013, 05:34:06 PM »
Compared to what? Whats so great about them?
brand name and never had issues with them in comparison to the other companies. I said it was MY honest opinion.
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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #127 on: April 28, 2013, 05:37:43 PM »
I've had nothing but problems with WD passport.
YMMV
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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #128 on: April 28, 2013, 05:47:58 PM »
+1000 the passport drive are the worst drives that came out in years. The my books aren't as bad but I don't like them either.

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #130 on: April 28, 2013, 06:34:28 PM »
I've had nothing but problems with WD passport.
YMMV

+1000 the passport drive are the worst drives that came out in years. The my books aren't as bad but I don't like them either.

SeaGate is better?

What about WD internal?

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #131 on: April 28, 2013, 06:47:29 PM »
seagate is generally simpler, not neccesarily better. Internal all depends on the model some are better and some are worse. The WD Black series are pretty good.

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #132 on: April 28, 2013, 06:49:04 PM »
seagate is generally simpler, not neccesarily better. Internal all depends on the model some are better and some are worse. The WD Black series are pretty good.

I have a SeaGate wireless goflex, and had some issues, but did a firmware update and its running fine now (using it for my GN10)

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #133 on: April 29, 2013, 07:41:03 AM »
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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #134 on: April 29, 2013, 07:24:27 PM »
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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #135 on: April 29, 2013, 07:43:46 PM »

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #136 on: April 29, 2013, 07:45:32 PM »
Ends at 8pm EST 1tb for $50!

Im getting $79.99 for the 1tb. How is it $50?

Sorry. I added the code. Its 204U
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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #137 on: April 29, 2013, 07:46:45 PM »
I dont believe that code works for that, and even if it did it still wouldn't be $50

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Re: External hard drive
« Reply #138 on: April 29, 2013, 07:47:56 PM »
Just did

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