HD recommendations

[Jamie Hogerheide]

What external HD do you recommend for use with PC, mostly for photo and video storage. Will also need to frequently access it for editing purposes. All budgets considered. Thank you. 

[Damien Symonds]

@Jamie Hogerheide did you browse the other threads before posting this?  This question has been asked a LOT, and Brian has answered it a LOT.

[Brian]

Yeah, I've answered this many times in the Windows Section. Anyway, I own G-Drives. I have the now discontinued (12TB version) of this drive, and this is the latest incarnation @ 14TB:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1480233-REG/g_technology_0g10427_g_drive_pro_14tb_thunderbolt.html

I like the fact that it's 7200 RPM and a Enterprise Class HD. That is Server-Grade / Heavy Usage stuff. Thunderbolt 3 is pretty fast and since you are editing video, the throughput on that Drive is very nice. So much that I actually put all of my images on my EHD, and even edit off of it. Because it's so fast, I don't notice any real difference in terms of performance working off a EHD than my internal HD. Sure, the my Mac's internal SSD drive will be faster, but I haven't been crippled by it. I'm also working with huge D850 files.

Please note, that G-Drive comes Mac-Formatted. All you would need to do is delete the existing partition, setup a GPT Disk and use the Wizard to create a NTFS partition. Should take less than 5 min to convert, and you don't need any fancy software to do this, it's built into Windows. Oh, speaking of Windows, you will need a 64-bit version, but I have a feeling you know this.