External Harddrive Question

[lazarus]

i dont have any idea what's good and what's not.

if someone could show me the way, thatd be great

 

oh im looking for something around 500 gigs maybe a lil smaller

doesnt have to be that fast, just some thing very reliable

[Kruten]

Western Digital My Books seems to be pretty good. One with a Firewire connection would be nice, but that's only if you have a Firewire port somewhere o your comp.

[Cujo]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817392002

 

and pick any sata hdd.

 

my choice would be:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148140

for price/gig and a 5yr warranty.

 

oh and i picked the blue enclosure but it comes in black and red as well. blue is my favourite colour. go leafs go!

[appalachian_fox]

Nice setup, Cujo. That'd be a fantastic home setup. I was going to ask if Laz had a laptop, which would limit his connection to USB 2.0, but you can't really save that much money by going down, you'd get a lower quality enclosure and you wouldn't have the eSATA with which to expand.

[Magruter]

I picked up a WD 250 gig My book about a month ago for 60 after rebate. It's a sharp looking drive.

 

Here's a 400 gig internal for 90.

 

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4596287

 

OR HERE!!!! Get the grand daddy!!

 

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=...&adid=17662

[Lunk]

I got one of these last month. Mines the older one. This one is the newer version.

 

At first I wasn't all that impressed with it's speed. So, I let it sit for a couple of weeks. I went back to it and now I'm quite happy with it's transfer rate. Guess it needed to burn in or something. It's nice to have a networked storage hd. That way I don't have to leave any one pc on all the time to access it.

[Metallurgic]

I have always wanted a network drive. Can they also be used as a standard external with USB ore Firewire? That would be ideal.

 

 

As for me, I use a Western Digital 160gb external, and it works very well. It has the dual backup feature, but i've never used it.

[HWarrior]

My current portable solution is AMS Venus external enclosure and 500gig Seagate.

 

If you don't need it portable, and have an old system laying around just turn it into a network drive. Hide it behind a desk & hook up to a router. My oldest comp is doing that job with 512MB Ram & 10/100 nic and about 1TB (3 Seagate 320s) for only $0.25/gig.

[Nick Soapdish]

for my bday my rents got me the WDsync Passport. if you're looking for small and portable it cant be beat, it's smaller than an ipod and it's 160gb i think. my rents got it for $100 at best buy on sale. it's usb

[anonymo]

for my bday my rents got me the WDsync Passport. if you're looking for small and portable it cant be beat, it's smaller than an ipod and it's 160gb i think. my rents got it for $100 at best buy on sale. it's usb

Give it to me.

[EbilDustBunny]

I also reccomend the Western Digtal: My Book. I have a 500 gig it's very awsome. I don't use the software that came with it but it's very nifty and dummy proof.

 

If you are looking for speed They just came out with a 1TB book. It's a monster that can do RAID 0 or RAID1.