– If we can’t recover any data, there is no charge (assuming the cover of your drive wasn’t opened, as this incurs a $50 up-front non-refundable fee). – If we recover less than 99% of your data, you have the option to pay our $500 fee, or pay a $100 labor fee and decline the recovery. Note - this total includes our $100 “USB PCB” fee (because the USB port is soldered onto the PCB) and our $100 “Encryption” fee (because your drive contains WD’s “Smartware” encryption). – If we recover 99-100% of your data, you’ll pay our $500 fee. Here’s how our rate works (for a “My Passport” drive excluding “Element” models which do not have Smartware encryption): What is the cost to recover a Western Digital “My Passport?” What are the odds of that happening? Often enough that this company has it in their FAQ. If/when they fail, it's $$$ to recover your data versus $20-30 for a SATA to USB adapter or free if you install a Seagate drive internally because it's a standard SATA drive with a detachable USB interface.īut, but, chicken butt. They have the USB interface and port integrated into the mainboard. Any suggestions would be appreciated.īroken record here. What would be the best option for me amoung the options I've mentioned and if at all there is any other company that I can consider please let me know.
I use it for storing pictures, videos and some files. I've read about exFAT, NTFS etc and any information on that would be really helpful.
Any information on the format would be great. I'm pretty new to this and I'm looking for creating backups of my files and want to keep them safe. Which one should I consider? And any suggestions on what's the best practices that usually followed to keep data safe and backed-up. One touch, backup plus ultra touch, expansion and backup plus from Seagate.Įlements portable and my passport from WD. I'm not sure what is the difference between these models, they almost cost the same but have different names like One touch and backup plus. If at all I wanted to go for 2TB then it would cost me around $69.86. I'm thinking of going for a 1.5TB HDD as I don't have much data right now. I've got the same models in different storage sizes. Seagate backup plus ultra touch, 1TB External HDD (STHH1000301) - $52.40 Seagate backup plus slim 1TB external HDD, USB 3.0 (STHN1000403) - $51.05 Seagate one touch 1TB external HDD (STKY1000403) - $51.05 WD 1 TB my passport portable external HDD, USB 3.0 (WDBYVG0010BBK-WESN) - $51.05 WD 1.5TB Elements Portable external hard drive, USB 3.0 (WDBU6Y0015BBK-WESN) - $53.73 I'm looking to buy an external HDD for backing up my files, there are a lot of options available and I'm not sure which one works better for me.
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