need a good hard drive... any thoughts

[Mark Blue]

I was actually looking at the Western Digital website and they have their own version of Acronis True Image available for download for free here: WD Acronis. Since we were talking about backing up I thought I'd throw this out there as it appears as though it will do what you need for burning basic image files of your hard drive.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I have yet to find one that is totally reliable. I have had failures in Seagate, WD and Maxtors. SSD are still very pricey and small, they are mainly for boot drives and placing a few programs on them for fast loading.

 

[TJ Whitt]

If the had drive is accepting the rescue/restore disc, then that is a good sing. Try to make any and all repairs, then immediately make a backup. It is best to do a backup each month if you have lots of files.

With that being said, if the HDD is truly gone, I suggest going Western Digital as I have used WD for the past 15 years and have had no issues with them. If you can spare the money, get a 60GB or so SSD. Solid State Drives are faster and will last a lot longer than HDD as there aren't any moving parts in a SSD. I use a 80GB SSD as a primary drive and use a 2TB HDD as a media storage drive.

 

[jason kissam]

as the hd was taking repairs it killed itself and now does not load past the toshiba screen. looks like a new thing is in order. i have 90% of the files on other computers and storage devices. the only thing that im missing is the videos i just edited of all my storms. well looks like im upgrading again. and time to re edit the footage

 

[jason kissam]

back up and running. thanks all for the input