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My new Western Digital 1 Terabyte external HD

December 10, 2009 · Filed Under Babel fish, Hardware & Peripherals

Here is my latest e-commerce purchase: a Western Digital branded external hard disk (USB 2.0 compatible) with 1 Terabyte of nominal storage space. The recent mourning still burns and to be sure this time I’ve spent almost 120 Euros (HD + basic case + shipping costs) to buy a no-frills HD doing the only thing I’m interested to, that is keeping my data (partitions images first of all) and keeping them well, as just one of the few storage brands I trust can do.

Actually I would have liked to purchase an eSATA hard disk to take advantage of the new standard fastest capabilities but this USB My Book was the overall most convenient bargain I found. One Terabyte is equal to four times the size of the laptop hard disk, and considering that furthermore I loyally follow the rule for which a HD must not be filled till the end to work at its best I will have to use all this space in ways different than just my backup needs (MAME with the green thumb? P2P? High-def? Here we go….).

The new My Book joins the 250 Gigabytes one that I bought nearly 3 years ago (on PIXmania.com too), therefore I now have 1.25 TB of total external storage. Let’s skip wasting words on the shitty “backup” software attached to the HD and the very questionable choice to integrate it in a virtual drive that automatically mounts every time you connect the USB cable, now I just have to move on and try a good archiving tool on the kind of Acronis True Image (goodbye Norton Ghost…) and then I can freely deal with installations, downgrades, upgrades and the devastation of those two hidden partitions that dare to conceal their contents to my inquiring eyes from Windows Vista