Reliable giant HD

[ShinRa]

Hey guys. I've gotten heavily into photography, and these picture sizes are pretty huge. I'm talking like 7mb a picture. I'm gonna need something like a 500GB HD. I don't want to risk losing these pictures, and I know there's no guarentee a drive won't blow up, but could you guys recommend me a reliable 500GB or more HD to store all my photos on? Thanks.

 

[MRG]

Morning ShinRa,

When you talk about a storage HDD, do you want an internal or external setup?

500GB Internal HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136032

500GB External HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144069
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822204034

External 500GB HDD Listing
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822204034

Internal 500GB HDD Listing
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136032

I'm sure you are aware that you can convert your pics to a smaller file size, while not losing the image quality right? There are a huge amout of programs out that do just that. It won't take long until people have given you a large selection to choose from.

For a free image converter, I use xnView. Very powerful program, with a large selection of editing options to choose from.

Download:
http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html

Scroll down and choose "Setup (Multi-language) (6.8Mb) Server 1"

Hope this helps.

-MRG

 

[Barney Fife]

I love those Seagate they're like all you can eat, nothing special nutritionwise, fill your stomach and stay there for such a, such a long freaking time, with some occasional gas side effect.

 

[Asus]

WD or Seagate are good choices and 3-5 year warranties. But they still can break and even under warranty you still loose all data so get a 2nd drive for backup if you can't loose your data.

 

[Ren.182]

WD or Seagate are good choices and 3-5 year warranties. But get a 2nd drive for backup if you can't loose your data.

Agreed. My Seagates have given me no problems. Had them nearly two years with heavy daily usage.

 

[The Brick]

If you want huge and fast, Hitachi Dekstar 7k1000. Reliable? I don't really know for sure, but WD has never given me problems.

 

[PvtRyan]

Hard drives are not very expensive, so if you really value reliability you can always get two harddrives and run them in RAID 1.

 

[Asus]

Hard drives are not very expensive, so if you really value reliability you can always get two harddrives and run them in RAID 1.

RAID 1 is convenient when only 1 drive fails but you could still loose data on both (fried hardware perhaps?).
RAID 1 != backup

Companies that need data security probably do both but that could get expensive for someone at home.

 

[ShinRa]

Thank you guys so much for all the help. I don't visit here too often anymore, but when I do, I'm always warmly greeted. Thanks again.

 

[Ren.182]

We love you too.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I love those Seagate they're like all you can eat, nothing special nutritionwise, fill your stomach and stay there for such a, such a long freaking time, with some occasional gas side effect.

I see you got 2 seagate barracuda's with 750GB on each. I have a seagate barracuda 500GB SATAII myself, and I have had no problems as of yet. Made 2 partitions, one for XP and the other for Vista (I'm waiting till decent DX10 games come out beforew buying though)

 

[Barney Fife]

I see you got 2 seagate barracuda's with 750GB on each. I have a seagate barracuda 500GB SATAII myself, and I have had no problems as of yet. Made 2 partitions, one for XP and the other for Vista (I'm waiting till decent DX10 games come out beforew buying though)

Sorry. There must have been a mistake.
I got 2 SATAII Seagate HDDs

1) 320GB
2) 250GB

Total of 570GB.

Sorry for the inconvenience that this may have cost you.

sure I love these drives, tho they only come by themselves without any cable and or instructions, only nude-self. I would buy them again and again and...You know!... and again and again and again....then maybe again.

Good Luck.