Best External Hard Drives on a Budget

You will find that Apple does not offer large discounts on their products, no matter where you buy them. Most resellers have very small percentage discounts (if they offer them at all) on Apple products. In my opinion, the difference is so small I would rather purchase direct from Apple or a very well known, reputable distributor.

Just to let you know I bought one of these WD drives just over a year ago and it has recently failed on me.
I also found it very sluggish, I even nicknamed it the student drive as it seems to be sleeping constantly

I would avoid

LaCie? We had a failure rate of about 30% (click of death) some years ago. However, these drives died within the first three or four months, and LaCie has a pretty decent after sales service***. The drives we got within the last two or three years are fine though.

I have a stone-old WD MyBook at home that simply refuses to die.

*** LaCie cannot do data recovery, so if a drive dies without a backup, you are screwed.

cleash wrote: Hmm so the only way to avoid any lag is wait for the market to get some thunderbolt HDs.

Might want to consider editing with Proxy files - FCPX makes it super easy.

JT

My OWC externals have always been wonderful for many years now.