Hard Drive Update

[Wilbour]

I have been using an old Dell business machine with a 80gig hard drive for over a year. My storage has been a 1tb passport USB drive. I have had to battle disconnects frequently and have tweaked the system with no luck. Yesterday I bit the bullet and purchased a WD 2tb internal hard drive. I used a USB drive connector and Macrium Reflect Free software. The whole process of cloning and installing the new drive went well. Now I am Archiving my 100 shows (my wife insists she will watch soon).

I settled on the Purple WD drive since it was engineered for Surveillance and would handle spinning for 24 hours straight. The old OS is Vista and there is an issue with any drive over 2tb so that's the size I settled for.

All in all this has been a great update.

[martint123]

I find the same, USB drives are fine for backups and things, but don't seem to behave well with multiple processes doiing reads and writes. I'm not sure how USB3 might or might not improve things. I've certainly had throughput problems with SSD's in a USB3 mount.