Recommend portable HDD with USB interface

Question

Hard disks

Yesterday I buried the second portable HDD. And this is for half a year. An autopsy showed that in both cases there was a WD.

Tell me what to buy?

Conditions:
- not less than 500Gb
- use in extreme conditions :)
- the price is not higher than 6 tr.

Answer 1

I advise you HDD Transcend 2.5' 640GB price 3 tr. But I'm not sure about extreme.

Answer 2

2 portable screws from WD of 160 and 320 GB, respectively, have been living for ~ 3 and 1.5 years, respectively. Used frequently (the first is used every day). Looks like you have a problem in handling the device, and not in the device itself.

Answer 3

For all portable hard drives, there is a golden rule: "When the screw is on, you cannot move it."
Otherwise, you can change the angle, and the screw rotates in it at a very high speed (5400 rpm = 90 rpm). In this case, the gyroscopic effect plays an extremely negative role.
I've been using it for a long time too - about 4 years.

Answer 4

I bought an adapter box for 300 rubles, aluminum, and put a screw from a dead laptop into it. Cheap and cheerful.

Answer 5

Transcend Storejet 2.5 in a rubber case, I have a 320 Gb model experienced falls and more than once, two years - the flight is normal.

Answer 6

Please advise a really stable external HDD. In the 500Gb region, the main thing is stability and long service life. Naturally, under civilian conditions of use. By the way, is it possible to carry it every day in a backpack while driving to work? How is he to such "shaking". Thank you. (I didn’t have enough karma to ask my own question, but here it’s just on the “topic”).

Answer 7

I have been the owner of the yellow A-Data SH93 640GB
card on the market for
half a year. I am satisfied with everything: both cheap and reliable)) In general,
I advise

Answer 8

Samsung S2 at one time liked. It differs from competitors primarily by the integration of the USB interface into the drive itself.
The truth is I do not know how he is friends with extreme loads.