after recommendations

[tommyboy]

I need a new external backup disk, can anybody tell me the name of a reliable manufacturer? there seems to be a zillion more to chose from since about four years ago!

[TheFaQQer]

This probably should be in technical rather than here, but....

Western Digital, Lacie, or Buffalo are all good in my experience.

Depends on how big you want it, whether you want RAID etc. etc. - I have a Buffalo and a Lacie (160GB and 210GB) for general use, and a WD 1.5TB for backing up my work desktop. WD was the cheapest for a 1.5TB drive, which is what I need.

[Lockhouse]

I bought a brace of 750Gb Western Digital External USB drives for media storage for about £150. Very happy with them.

[Ardesco]

I would go with Western Digital every time. Have been using them for about five years now and only ever had a problem with 1 HD (I have about 20 drives I think). RMA was as easy as log onto the website, enter seriel number, print off freepost postage label and stick it in the post. Replacement drive arrived 2 days later.

Can't beat that for service!!

[moorfield]

Just wanted to extend the question here... can anyone recommend any _wireless_ hard drives (or hard drive + router) I can just bolt on to my home network?
I'm geting tired of plugging in USB drives all the time and am looking for something that can just sit on a shelf I can use wireless.
Ta.

[TheFaQQer]

Just wanted to extend the question here... can anyone recommend any _wireless_ hard drives (or hard drive + router) I can just bolt on to my home network?
I'm geting tired of plugging in USB drives all the time and am looking for something that can just sit on a shelf I can use wireless.
Ta.

I used to have a netgear SC101.

It's rubbish.

[basshead]

I've got a 1.6TB Buffalo TeraStation NAS which sits in the loft. No WiFi built in but its on the network which has a wireless router on it, so is available wirelessly. Great product, very reliable (so far) and you can hack the embedded linux on it to add functionality, e.g. ssh server. Recommended.

[ChimpMaster]

Do these drives come with any mirroring software, to save having to perform a complete backup every time? Or would you recommend any other software for that purpose?

[TheFaQQer]

Do these drives come with any mirroring software, to save having to perform a complete backup every time? Or would you recommend any other software for that purpose?

The SC101 does.

Again, it's rubbish.

[basshead]

Do these drives come with any mirroring software, to save having to perform a complete backup every time? Or would you recommend any other software for that purpose?

Mine didn't, I have Norton Ghost 9 which does incremental backups.