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Posted by gazsmith666 on Feb-21-2004 09:38:

external hard drive advice

hi guys,

wondering if anyone can give us some advice, i want to purchase an external hard drive, but not sure which one, i have narrowed it down to 2, but not sure which to get, the two are

hard drive 1

and

hard drive 2

is the extra 50 gig worth losing some rpm over, and if so, how much of a decrease in speed will i see?

any help apreciated

gaz

Posted by alanzo on Feb-22-2004 01:52:

I would go with the 7200 RPM one.. transfering data is noticably faster with 7200 vs 5400.. what do you want to store on it?

Posted by gazsmith666 on Feb-22-2004 15:22:

all my music mostly, its to back it all up, and when i move overseas, then i can just take it with me, though i will be transfereing a lot at the start, after that, it is more of a storage option

Posted by alanzo on Feb-22-2004 17:04:

hrmm.. well if it's just for storage then I would go with the 5400RPM - 7200RPM is good for quick access (like playing a video game or something) but if your just going to be storing music/movies then 5400RPM will do you just as good..

Posted by gazsmith666 on Feb-22-2004 18:29:

quote:
Originally posted by alanzo
hrmm.. well if it's just for storage then I would go with the 5400RPM - 7200RPM is good for quick access (like playing a video game or something) but if your just going to be storing music/movies then 5400RPM will do you just as good..

i think i am going to go with the 300gig one, it frees up a lot of my internal space for playing games and stuff, and if i do transfer data, its just temporarily to be burned

cheers

Posted by Tudo Beleza on Feb-26-2004 05:41:

why not just buy a normal hard drive and put it in a external enclosure kit, much cheaper i thik?