HD recommendations?

[CJ Tres]

On 02/14/2012 10:32 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:53:43 -0600
> CJ Tres wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at a Seagate Go Flex 3 TB hd and wondering if anyone here
>> has any experience with them or knows any reason it would not be a good
>> choice for a back up drive or even a primary drive.
>
> Make sure that what you end up with hasn't got any unconfigurable power
> saving features. I bought a Samsung Story 2TB which seems to power down
> after about 5 seconds, and it takes about 10 seconds to power up again -
> very irritating. Unusable as a primary drive. There doesn't seem to be a
> way of changing the behaviour.
>
> - Richard.


Thanks Richard. I appreciate the input.
I'll bet that's something they don't list in the "features"