Solved Portable Hardrives WD v Seagate

[Arctos]

Next week when my Brit pension gets banked, I am up grading the office television to a Hisence 81cm smart tv.

I want to get a 1Tb portable usb drive to plug into the tv from the same store, to get a bit of a discount on the lot with some other stuff. As they do not sell Toshiba Canvio drives (which I prefer) I am left with either a Seagate or a WD for the same price.

I only need a 1 Tb size as it will only have about 750 gigs of recorded tv shows that I want to keep and watch again some time.

So do you have any thoughts on either of them, good bad or plurry indifferent.

 

[Lord Chance]

It is dealers choice on that one Mate. If you ask some the Seagate would be great but if you ask me then I would tell you go with the Western Digital. I have two of the 1Tb USB 3.0 drives and never have a problem. In all honesty, I sold WD drives almost exclusively in my shop. Out of the hundreds I sold over the years I had only a hand full come back. It made me a believer in the product. As for the Toshiba Convio, if you have an Officeworks near you, it is still available.

 

[Lord Chance]

Oh and it appears the Officeworks is $10 cheaper that Harvey Norman on the WD drive.

 

[Arctos]

It is dealers choice on that one Mate.

I have had both brands in external and they have both brands go west, but it was mainly the controller board for the enclosures.

As for the Toshiba Convio, if you have an Officeworks near you, it is still available.

Only trouble with Officeworks they do not sell televisions, I am trying to get a deal going with buying a fair bit of electrical stuff from HN.

Oh and it appears the Officeworks is $10 cheaper that Harvey Norman on the WD drive.

I know, it's a right pain in the arsë that.

 

[Lord Chance]

I have a small WD drive I bought from WD Labs for the Raspberry Pi and I suspect that it is the same drive they put in those WD Passports. THe one shown is only 375Gb but they make a 1Tb version as well.

 

[Crush]

Every single Seagate drive I've had personally and professionally has karked it

WD all the way

 

[Arctos]

Seeing as I do not want to go shopping at two stores, I am going to get the WD Elements instead of the Toshiba.

Thanks for the input fellers.

 

[Arctos]

Nice SNES controller buttons seems a good idea, maybe some kind of bezel around the screen would look goodseems like every portable did it.

Amazing story bro, but needs a couple more dragons and sh!t in it...