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I use a External Hard Drive to store alot of my music & other important file, is it common for a External HD to pack up, i would hate to lose my file's, has this happened to anyone?

factor4e wrote:I use a External Hard Drive to store alot of my music & other important file, is it common for a External HD to pack up, i would hate to lose my file's, has this happened to anyone?

If it matters, then double the back-up at minimum. Nothing is ever sure in todays world of vast producuction lines checked every 20,000 units. I can't even rely on high rate Verbatim's these days.

i have'nt had it happened. I've been using seagate for years

I have allready had several drives that died most of them died in the first week i had it ( i am a very heavy harddrive user ). So if you have a new drive don't put to important files on it the first week.

It's likely. You should backup work onto DVD's as well. It's a long boring job, but if/as/when external (or indeed internal) HDD's pack it in, you'll be happy you've got a hard copy. (Just make sure you look after your dvd's and store them properly so they don't degrade. Even so, you'll need to make backup's of DVD's every few years too!)

...and so the paranoia cycle begins

~J

I am using a WD My Passport and it died on me couple months ago...
I was using it only to transfer large files from one computer to another so I haven't lost important data and the warranty was still valid so I got a new one.

So - from my experience - don't count on an external drive to keep your data...

WD appear to be the world leader in drives.
A Google search on the subject should verify this, nearly all the major brands have been having issues of some kind due to
changes in production technique over the last year or so.
WD seem to be un-affected by this due to all manufacturing being done in-house.

Ive had 2 Samsung (internal) failures and a Seagate external start to show erratic behaviour in a relatively short space of time.

After being bitten I use 1 external drive for backing up my entire laptop (Mac Time Machine.... which is bloody amazing might i add!)
I use a 2nd drive which stores audio,movies and pics which are also backed up on the 1st drive.
And a 3rd smaller drive which has a backup of just my audio.

1 external is enough for me if its just duplicating info from say your PC.
But if its an external used for storage, buy a 2nd to back this up aswell.

How pee'd off are you if you lose your phone and all you lose are just contact numbers?

Back up EVERYTHING!