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Hello!
I was given an external hard drive for Christmas, I'm very happy about it, but here it is, it's a portable 500GB external hard drive from the brand "essentiel b" (which comes from the Boulanger store) and I absolutely don't know anything about these products. So I'm wondering about the reliability of this brand regarding portable external hard drives, what do you think, what are your opinions?
Thank you for your help and happy end of the year 2016!
I was given an external hard drive for Christmas, I'm very happy about it, but here it is, it's a portable 500GB external hard drive from the brand "essentiel b" (which comes from the Boulanger store) and I absolutely don't know anything about these products. So I'm wondering about the reliability of this brand regarding portable external hard drives, what do you think, what are your opinions?
Thank you for your help and happy end of the year 2016!
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Good evening,
The bakery products are not bad, okay it's not a high-end external hard drive but it does the job just the same.
Is it formatted or not, can you already put things in it or not, often external hard drives are not formatted.
You look in Windows, Disk Management, an application that dates back to MS-DOS, if your disk is not formatted, it is grayed out in Disk Management, you need to format it in NTFS mode, then it will be recognized by your computer.
Personally, I use 7 portable WD My Passport external hard drives and 15 Lacie desktop external drives (a professional French brand).
You need to create folders on your disk by themes: photos, videos, music, documents, etc.
and subfolders to classify for example
your documents by styles, letters, accounting, etc.
The same goes for photos, sorting by year for your personal photographs, create a separate folder to back up a copy of your memory cards, it serves as a backup, you always work with a copy of your originals.
An external hard drive is good to start with, and if one day you have a problem with your PC, your data will be backed up on this drive.
Happy end of the year 2016 and happy beginning of 2017.
The bakery products are not bad, okay it's not a high-end external hard drive but it does the job just the same.
Is it formatted or not, can you already put things in it or not, often external hard drives are not formatted.
You look in Windows, Disk Management, an application that dates back to MS-DOS, if your disk is not formatted, it is grayed out in Disk Management, you need to format it in NTFS mode, then it will be recognized by your computer.
Personally, I use 7 portable WD My Passport external hard drives and 15 Lacie desktop external drives (a professional French brand).
You need to create folders on your disk by themes: photos, videos, music, documents, etc.
and subfolders to classify for example
your documents by styles, letters, accounting, etc.
The same goes for photos, sorting by year for your personal photographs, create a separate folder to back up a copy of your memory cards, it serves as a backup, you always work with a copy of your originals.
An external hard drive is good to start with, and if one day you have a problem with your PC, your data will be backed up on this drive.
Happy end of the year 2016 and happy beginning of 2017.
Okay, thank you for these tips!
In fact, I'm going to use part of the drive to recover my files and photos from a "dying" computer, so I was wondering if it was a good idea to use this drive since it will contain the only version of those files, you have helpfully answered, thank you very much!
Burning your backups onto DVD-R 4.7GB sold in spindles without cases and by 100 is a bonus that I do.
Losing personal and valuable data is worth spending 27/30 Euros on a simple Verbatim spindle.
You can find black binders for 20 euros to organize the DVDs and CDs, I get everything on Amazon.fr
much cheaper especially
Have a good evening.
I’m joining the conversation just to add a grain of sand and to support the good advice from @MyVideos, because it’s true that anything can happen. Any external storage device is exposed to several external factors and is affected by them. This imposes a few golden rules and the one that seems of paramount importance to me is to always have a few backup copies of important content on various media (+1, @MyVideos). Moreover, it’s better to:
> avoid turning it off and on multiple times a day
> not move the hard drive while it’s operating, not shake or drop it
> not turn off the hard drive during file transfer, prevent power outages
> use the “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media” option
> check the health of the hard drive using dedicated tools (the utilities from the respective hard drive manufacturer)
Another option that comes to my mind is to also have an online backup by taking advantage of online storage options (cloud).
There you go!
Happy end of year celebrations to you :) See you!