Best external drives?

I have a 1TB Seagate external drive and it hasn't given me any issues in 3 years. Most of the bad reviews are from people who previously got burned by old Seagate drives when they used to have constant catastrophic failures, but their current offerings are alright.

If you're still unsure, look for Western Digital drives, since those are a similar price but have less of a bad track record.

External drives are overpriced and perform poorly. For the same price you could have an excellent HGST Ultrastar HDD, it's enterprise class, will have better speeds and be many times more reliable.

>>59260368
>HGST Ultrastar HDD
Why the fuck can't I buy these hard drives straight from amazon or Newegg?, I'm always finding "new" enterprise drives on ebay and places for cheap but never directly from Newegg or Amazon

>>59260483
idk
Check their website for approved vendors. I think microcenter is one if I remember correctly.

>>59260253

Gotcha, that makes sense.

Was actually thinking of going with WD. I've had a WD external drive for a few years now and it's never given me any issues.

>>59260368

I kinda need an external drive especially if I'm away from home and I'm only carrying a laptop to transfer photos to the hard drive. I appreciate recommending the better alternative, but i can't exactly bring my home computer with me everywhere.

>>59260756
You could set up a Samba server. That's what I have. Low powered hardware, small SSD for OS and HGST drives.

It's pretty nice

>>59260756
You can always put an internal drive in a USB enclosure although if you don't want external power your limited to 2,5 inch drives

Could USB 3.1 gen 2 power a 3.5" drive?

>>59261199
Type-C could easily power several 3.5in drives don't know any that explicitly supports the Type-c power delivery spec