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How reliable are the Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drives

Hi,

I had 2 Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drives.

The first Seagate drive worked fine.

It was encrypted and has all our files from all PCs backed up since two months ago.

The second drive was not encrypted but was to be encrypted after all files from all PCs were backed up onto the second Seagate drive.

We backed up files from every PC to the second drive but one which was the Windows 2003 server was not backed up.

We left the second drive to backup files on our Windows 2003 server and we later found that the drive crashed and was corrupt.

We ordered in a new replacement for the second drive and had received a third Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drive.

I unpacked the drive and then plugged it into a Windows 10 PC we have.

A message came up on the PC asking if I would like to scan and fix this external hard drive.

This occured with other PCs I plugged the third drive into as well.

We finally got this drive to stop displaying this message but two out of three of these drives caused problems for us.

How reliable are the Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drives?

Thanks,
Robbie

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Thanks for your help on this matter Steve and nobus.

We use two Seagate external hard drives for backup.

Each month one is kept on site to backup our files on our PCs and servers and the other securely offsite from our company..

Then when this backup is done for the month we swap the drives.

Then the second drive is doing the backup for the next month.

For this to work the backup drives must be very portable and secure.

Steve, would your solution work in this case?

Thanks,
Robbie

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Hi nobus,

All systems are using BIOS.

The drives are formatted as NTFS.

These drives are recognised by all our PCs.

Thanks,
Robbie

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