- Jun 14, 2015
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Hello all. I am looking to buy a 2 TB portable hard drive and I have narrowed down my choice to 3 options.
1. WD My Passport Ultra - http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra-Portable-External-WDBBKD0020BBK-NESN/dp/B00W8XXYSM/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
2. Toshiba Canveo Connect II - http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Connect-Portable-Storage-HDTC820XK3C1/dp/B00R4O9HCM
3. Seagate Backup Plus Slim - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Portable-External-STDR2000100/dp/B00FRHTSK4
I would be very thankful if someone could guide me further in buying one of these. Could anyone compare the performance of these drives ? Design and portability doesn't matter much to me. I would like to have a drive which is fast and has software which could meet my primary purpose of backing up full system image of my windows system. What I have read so far is that seagate drives have higher failure rates and WD's software has some bugs. Both WD and Seagate does not offer full system image backups. I am also aware that we could easily backup system image using windows utilities in windows 7 and 8. So full system image backup is not much of an issue but if there is one, I would go for it; as in case of the toshiba drive. But I haven't heard much of toshiba drives and don't know how it would perform compared to seagate or WD. If toshiba is reliable and performs like the other two, I would go for it since it has additional software features and also hardware level encryption.
So I would request someone to please help me with this and letting me know the performance of these drives. Thank You.
1. WD My Passport Ultra - http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra-Portable-External-WDBBKD0020BBK-NESN/dp/B00W8XXYSM/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
2. Toshiba Canveo Connect II - http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Connect-Portable-Storage-HDTC820XK3C1/dp/B00R4O9HCM
3. Seagate Backup Plus Slim - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Portable-External-STDR2000100/dp/B00FRHTSK4
I would be very thankful if someone could guide me further in buying one of these. Could anyone compare the performance of these drives ? Design and portability doesn't matter much to me. I would like to have a drive which is fast and has software which could meet my primary purpose of backing up full system image of my windows system. What I have read so far is that seagate drives have higher failure rates and WD's software has some bugs. Both WD and Seagate does not offer full system image backups. I am also aware that we could easily backup system image using windows utilities in windows 7 and 8. So full system image backup is not much of an issue but if there is one, I would go for it; as in case of the toshiba drive. But I haven't heard much of toshiba drives and don't know how it would perform compared to seagate or WD. If toshiba is reliable and performs like the other two, I would go for it since it has additional software features and also hardware level encryption.
So I would request someone to please help me with this and letting me know the performance of these drives. Thank You.
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