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I've stopped using external hard drives. What I do is use internal hard drives as external hard drives. If you have a hard drive that has the operating system your other extra (secondary drives) function as mere usb drives that are just harder to remove. They don't come with the convenience of being easy to move or mount, but if all you're using them for is file back-up, they're the best way to go. Now if you want a reliable external hard drive go with solid state ones, their only real problems are cost and that there's a limited number of times you can write and read over them. But they are far less likely to break because of far fewer moving parts, if you can claim that they have any real moving parts for practical purposes.

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They haven't failed me since I bought them - so I can't give you a firm date. 2 years give or take for the WDC, the Seagate has been going strong for 1 year. Before I buy a hard drive I usually check out newegg.com for user reviews. If an item has a reasonable amount of reviewers and it's at least a 4 out of 5 stars it should be reliable. I bought a WDC 1tb blue and a 1tb Seagate that both had 4 out of 5 stars and decent reviews. Remember, all hard drives fail. This is a matter of when, not if, the only way to save your files is to have multiple back-ups. I have stuff on my internal hard drive and then copies of my more important ones on a 300gb external hard drive and then my most important files have backups on dual layer DVDs.

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