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I've had my share of broken storage media. During just last year, I've had:
- two broken 500GB Seagate hard drives; one was new, broke completely, got different one - refurbished, but a little bit broken too (after running for a little while it just hangs)
- new 1TB Seagate hard drive that is semi-reliable; usually works but sometimes it hangs and results in BSOD
- my 16GB Flash Voyager GT broke just today; somehow a couple of hundred sectors are no longer usable; cannot read from them and all data that was there is lost
At one point in time I've moved all of my data (documents, programs, etc.) into one 8GB encrypted file container (TrueCrypt) and moved this file onto one of the most expensive pendrives in its range (the 16GB Voyager GT mentioned above) hoping it will prove to be 100% reliable solution. Unfortunately for me, it broke.
So now I'm asking you for a recommendation of a portable solution (max size is 2,5" hdd) that would be (nearly) 100% reliable. Which will not break. At least not easily. 10GB storage is enough.
Did you get a replacement for the Voyager GT (I have one of these...)? Also, given how easy it is to lose a USB flash drive, this could never be close to 100% reliable. Do you have a backed-up master-copy somewhere else? – sblair – 2010-02-18T01:43:30.747
The Voyager broke just yesterday. I'm still trying to recover the data from it. I'm not afraid of loosing the usb stick. I never lost one. I have a backup copy of the data that was on the usb stick, but it's from 5 days back. So 5 days worth of data is lost. – Paweł Gościcki – 2010-02-18T10:19:15.077
Seagate used to be a good HDD mfg, but I have read quite a lot of bad things (like in reviews) of Seagate drives in the past few years, specifically their external drives. I used to like Maxtor until a bunch of their drives died. I loved WD and still swear by them for the most part, but like everyone else, their quality is also falling. – Synetech – 2011-08-25T06:22:13.850