Need Advice on Buying a new External HDD.

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sam9953

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Hi there guys. Some of you might have followed my recent thread about buying a new USB 3.0 Flash drive, but for now I have given up the plan and instead I am thinking of buying a new External HDD, once I buy a new HDD I will sell my current Seagate Freeagent Go 500GB. Okay so here are the constraints of my purchase:

1) My father lives in Ukraine so for me it does not matter if a HDD is good and not available here in India, I will ask him to get it for me from abroad. So I want suggestions for HDD's which are available throghout the world, not just India specific.

2) I am looking for an HDD which has USB 3.0 strictly, doesnt matter is its 1TB or 500GB, I can work with both

3) Please suggest me only those HDDs which have international warranty, that means even if I buy a drive from abroad, it should have warranty applicable here in India.

4) Lastly while suggesting me HDD please try to suggest me the ones which have best writing and reading speed, I mean which suggest me the fatest ones, because I don't have much knowledge about that.

5) Budget is not a constraint as such but yes the cheaper, the better is applicable for everyone.

I know I have put up a lot of constraints but thats just so that you can help me better. Thanks in advance everyone.

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amitrajput said:
Hi sam9953,

As per your specifications you can go through SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - 1TB, Product Number: 97538.
It will fulfill all your requirements of a External HDD
It is compact.
Its transfer speed is 10x faster than USB 2.0.
100% compatible with USB 2.0 port.
compatible with windows mac linux and higher operating system.
One more importatnt feature is that it has 7 years of warranty.
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You are referring to the Iomega one, right?
 
amitrajput said:
Hi sam9953,

As per your specifications you can go through SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - 1TB, Product Number: 97538.
It will fulfill all your requirements of a External HDD
It is compact.
Its transfer speed is 10x faster than USB 2.0.
compatible with windows mac linux and higher operating system.
One more importatnt feature is that it has 7 years of warranty.
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What product are you talking about?

Apart from marketing blurb I see nothing in your post, we all know how fast USB 3.0 is compared to an USB 2.0 components, we know that it is backwards compatible, What the... is a higher operating system?

And as far as I know, no company offers more than ~3 years of Limited Warranty on its retail products.

@sam9953 buy any Western Digital hard-drive that catches your eye, Seagate and other companies that retail external hard-drives none of them offer International Warranty, Western Digital offers a time bound Warranty cover for its external drives (in country / region of purchase) and for the same time period one can replace the hard-drive (once) Internationally.

Please note that if you are really insistent about speed and proper international warranty you might need to purchase a enterprise level product OR an Intel SSD.

Hope this helps, Cheerio!
 
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ALPHA17 said:
What product are you talking about?

Apart from marketing blurb I see nothing in your post, we all know how fast USB 3.0 is compared to an USB 2.0 components, we know that it is backwards compatible, What the... is a higher operating system?

And as far as I know, no company offers more than ~3 years of Limited Warranty on its retail products.

sam9953 buy any Western Digital hard-drive that catches your eye, Seagate and other companies that retail external hard-drives none of them offer International Warranty, Western Digital offers a time bound Warranty cover for its external drives (in country / region of purchase) and for the same time period one can replace the hard-drive (once) Internationally.

Please note that if you are really insistent about speed and proper international warranty you might need to purchase a enterprise level product OR an Intel SSD.

Hope this helps, Cheerio!
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Firstly, I am really happy that a genius like you is helping me solve my problem, I was actually wondering, where is Mr. Alpha
Now that you are here, can you tell me one product, which would solve my needs and also give me international warranty, because my Dad will get it from Europe and I just want that the warranty to be applicable here in India, just name me one product model, which you think might suit me.
 
Go for WD if you are concerned about size.. The WD My Passport Essential SE USB 3.0 rocks. Its very cute and performs good . I am using one. No complaints so far. Have been using it for the past 6 months, however i use it to take occassional backups.

The Current goflex series are somewhat big. Even the verbatim series which is recommended is big.. My concern is size and performance. But i dont know the durability of WD harddrives as this is the 1st drive from WD..


Now its upto you to decide ...
 
I have been using 500 GB Seagate Freeagent Go but with USB 2.0 and its been great so now for my upgrade also I am thinking about getting the same one but USB 3.0
 
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