shaneroberts
Shane Roberts
shaneroberts
Editor Emeritus, The Inventory

You have my vote. I own 3 of the HGST - $79 bucks at Fry’s for 1TB at 7200 RPM. Unless you go SSD, this is the best there is.... Read more

You have my vote. I own 3 of the HGST - $79 bucks at Fry’s for 1TB at 7200 RPM. Unless you go SSD, this is the best

A Corsair Voyager Air. Wireless functionality, killer battery life, and mobile app make it a really high quality drive Read more

A Corsair Voyager Air. Wireless functionality, killer battery life, and mobile app make it a really high quality

I have a family member in the film industry who swears by these. He claims the 7200 RPM is key to transferring footage quickly. Read more

I have a family member in the film industry who swears by these. He claims the 7200 RPM is key to transferring

I love these Silicon Power drives.

I love these Silicon Power drives.

As a video production company, we standardized on the the G-DRIVE line of thunderbolt, firewire or USB-3 drives for capture backup, editing and archive. http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-dri… Read more

As a video production company, we standardized on the the G-DRIVE line of thunderbolt, firewire or USB-3 drives for

Drobo 5D- Thunderbolt and USB3 with easy RAID fault tolerance and hot swappable drives. I don’t need NAS but I do video and game production so large, safe, fast data storage was on the menu. Drobo has delivered.
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Drobo 5D- Thunderbolt and USB3 with easy RAID fault tolerance and hot swappable drives. I don’t need NAS but I do

I do photo video work on on the go with a mac. LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt is my go to BUS powered travel drive. Despite the name it also runs USB 3.0 and can be purchased in both mechanical or SSD options. It’s also Shock, dust, and water resistant.

I do photo video work on on the go with a mac. LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt is my go to BUS powered travel drive.

WD Passport 3.0. Bought a 1 TB unit recently for my Xbox One. Simple design. WD reliability. nuff’ said.
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WD Passport 3.0. Bought a 1 TB unit recently for my Xbox One. Simple design. WD reliability. nuff’ said.

What more could I want? Read more

What more could I want?

After having trying over 100 different external hard drives over the past 10 years, I have to agree with everything above. Pegasus also makes an awesome drive. Lacie 2big is pretty sweet as well (12TB), but noisy. So far Western Digital has been the most reliable. Stay away from Seagate!! Read more

After having trying over 100 different external hard drives over the past 10 years, I have to agree with everything

WD MyCloud 4TB Personal Cloud Storage

Recently had an HD crash and lost a lot of data, so I wanted to get something reliable, affordable, and easily accessible to backup my data. I love that it is networked into my router, so I can add and access files from anywhere in my home or anywhere in the world. I can create

WD MyCloud 4TB Personal Cloud Storage

Recently had an HD crash and lost a lot of data, so I wanted to get something

Transcend’s Military drop-tested Storejet (2 TB).

Transcend’s Military drop-tested Storejet (2 TB).

The Samsung T1 250GB USB 3.0 External SSD

The Samsung T1 250GB USB 3.0 External SSD

Not just an external hard drive, but this is my nomination - the Apple Time Capsule (2GB or 3GB).

Not just an external hard drive, but this is my nomination - the Apple Time Capsule (2GB or 3GB).

I have categorized the types/drives
Portable:
Thunderbolt - WD My Passport Pro
USB3 - WD My Passport Ultra
OWC Envoy Pro EX - Super fast SSD
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I have categorized the types/drives
Portable:
Thunderbolt - WD My Passport Pro
USB3 - WD My Passport Ultra
OWC Envoy

Why? They are solid and perform ridiculously well. Read more

Why? They are solid and perform ridiculously well.

WD My Passport Ultra 2TB

WD My Passport Ultra 2TB

WD My Passport. I have 5 of them; the oldest one seven years old and I’ve never had a single problem with any of them.
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WD My Passport. I have 5 of them; the oldest one seven years old and I’ve never had a single problem with any of

More guy stuff, please! Read more

More guy stuff, please!