[JfTM]

Asking as the model numbers change frequently.

I have a 1 TB WD Passport and a  500 GB Seagate that are both full

Has anyone bought a large USB powered drive recently?  What model works?

Suggestions?

As the models change so often could this be a good sticky?

Thanks

Mike

[mario09]

I use a My Book Essential 2TB with no problem. My musical library has almost 30 000 songs some are FLAC and some are AIFF. Very quiet drive.

[uncouth]

I can vouch for the 3TB Western Digital My Book Essential. I've had no issues with it whatsoever.

[unincognito]

Hi all,

Any 2TB drive should work and the latest firmware adds added support for 3TB drives.  We have tested a 3tb seagate and a generic hitachi 3tb in a vantec enclosure.

Cheers
Chris

[ronman]

I am running 3 x 2 terabyte Seagate Barracuda external powered hard drives and a variety of flash drives through a externally powered usb hub which is then plugged into the BDP-1. I found the 64mb cache hard drives don't work, so I am using the 32mb cache hard drives instead (put all the 64mb cache drives into my pc so no loss incurred.) Maybe its just a hard drive enclosure issue (using "no name" brand generic enclosures). It all works, so I am not phased.     

[Ned F. Kuehn]

I use Barracuda XTC 2 TB hard drive (64 GB Cache 7200 rpm NTFS file format FLAC compression) in the Sans Digital Towerstor TSIU-B SATA hard drive enclosure with USB 3.0. It works without flaw and if you move the hard drive to a computer with USB 3.0 file transfer is really fast. The only complaint is occasional audible clicks from from the drive. The case is fanless and although a bit more expensive than others is extraordinarily well built. It is USB 2.0 backward compatible. Never a flaw encountered.
Ned