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| bloated_cow |
| Finally, I am going to make myself purchase an external harddrive. I cant stand my 4 gig harddrive any longer! I have about $200-250 to spend. I'm thinking about getting a big external harddrive. I HATE BEST BUY, because EVERYTHING they have ever sold me has broke (Playstation 2, 2 cd burners, about 4 or 5 modems:whip: ) any suggestions as to where I can get a good deal or what the best brands are? Any help is appreciated. |
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| HyPeRSoNiC |
...... or you can get an internal one twice as big for half the price :D
external HDs are slow, expensive, and they get ruined alot.....
trust me....... get an internal one.....
dude, you got 250$!!!!!! you can get like 200 GB for that kind of money...... |
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| S2K |
| External seem pointless to me. Internal all the way baby, as mentioned above. ^^^^^^^^^ |
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| bloated_cow |
| Well, if I get an external, I can take It over peoples houses and abuse their connections :toothless , but I might just as well get an internal I suppose. Thanks for the advice! |
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| Clyde77 |
im getting an external HD (firewire)!
hmmm. i would get an external bt then i have a laptop. so its a whole diff story. :) but mate if u can get an internal, get it fool! |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| its a hat trick to remove an internal drive. They are a bit fragile though so in transportation you might wnat to keep them protected :-) I got 126 gigs of HD space on my network 46 coming from three drives (on this machine) and 80 coming from one (on the new machine I built). I only paid for two of them :) |
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| placebo |
| I've been meaning to get an external too, because I have a laptop that only have 5 gigs of space...AHHH!!!! |
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| bloated_cow |
| The reason I was considering getting an external, is because I dont have any open slots for my pc, so I am going to have to back up everything onto cd's first, then reinstall windows and all my programs. If I have an external, I can use ghost and make everything the same as it is on my old drive, but I suppose I really should go with the internal so when i get a new pc it will have lots of space |
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| jonsimmonds |
you could just have the harddrive "resting" inside the pc case, ghost the old drive to the new, remove old drive and put new one in its place.
exernal drives are only usefull if you need to more "large" amounts of data from one place to another, personally i just use cd's as they are a) cheaper b) easier to transport and c) if i drop them the cd may shater and i lose the data, drop a harddrive, external or internal, and you risk damaging it (the heads that read the data) and losing all the data on the drive |
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| Intense_Sounds |
| Internal HardDrive + HardDrive Caddy |
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| whiskers |
internal is the way to go
i'm gonna get myself another internal drive, 120gb+ preferably... and thinking about a new laptop... |
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| LiquidX |
| the only problem with upgrading internal hardrives, is that your whole system needs to be compatible with such a big hardrive, meaning, heaving to upgrade Ram, Procecors and such in order to make it work, so If I were you Id just buy a new PC, those with the 400 dollar deals that have 60 gigs.. or buy the external if you dont want to upgrade all the other things I mentioned. |
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