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suggestions for an external hard drive? (pg. 2)
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I have two Western Digital 500GB which I purchased from Costco. I have all my music on one and use the other as a backup that I keep at my office. Just in case . . .
Easy to use. Memory is so cheap these days.
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| GPC |
| quote: | Originally posted by skizzell
I'm getting a Drobo soon. Read around the interwebs for all the buzz surrounding it. It's quite a nice setup. |
That is sweet. I need one. I'm about maxed out at 750GB right now. All music and pics. |
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| bucke |
| i'll probably look for one at fry's this weekend. i don't like buying this type of stuff online this way if its defective or it breaks down i can return it instead of having to deal with shipping it back and forth. that drobo looks really tempting but i'm just not willing to go all out right now. :tongue3 |
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| RobertStern |
| quote: | Originally posted by bucke
i'll probably look for one at fry's this weekend. i don't like buying this type of stuff online this way if its defective or it breaks down i can return it instead of having to deal with shipping it back and forth. that drobo looks really tempting but i'm just not willing to go all out right now. :tongue3 |
Buying an external enclosure and then the hd is a bad idea.... you are going to spend way more $$ and the enclosure designs suck unless you spend a lot.
Bro, don't waster your time!!!
just go here: Office MAX good till Saturday, but I would go fast, they have already sold out online, but most stores still have them in stock
Maxtor 750GB External $189.99
LINK
If you are too late, go to Best Buy, they have the Western Digital 500GB My Book external for $129 till saturday.
Western Digital is pretty much the best quality out there. |
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| RobertStern |
| quote: | Originally posted by skizzell
I'm getting a Drobo soon. Read around the interwebs for all the buzz surrounding it. It's quite a nice setup. |
if you got money to blow, Drobo is pretty cool... But you could build a Server for that price that you could do a hell of alot more with and still do everythign the DROBO does.
just seems super duper way too expensive... It should be like $200 |
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| progressiveMOJO |
western digital makes really good externals that are usually pretty cheap. I got a 250gb drive for $70 back at Christmas, saw a 500gb drive advertized for $130 recently.
The other option is to buy an internal drive from one of those companies (super cheap these days) and get an enclosure for it, which is like $20-30. Dunno how that affects speed, it's probably a bit slower but in the end that's essentially the same thing you're buying.
I wouldn't buy from any company other than Seagate, maxtor, or WD. With hard drives, reliability is #1 priority. |
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| in2muzikk |
Make sure to check out the warranty offered by those companies too, some are only giving 90 days now (which says to me that they expect the to break soon after 3 months). I've read that the LaCie externals have very good drives, but extremely cheap circuit boards, and that's usually what fails. If you need to send it back, good luck getting any data back!
CMS Peripherals offers a number of different backup options:
http://www.cmsproducts.com/products_backup.htm
My 250GB external (which is a few years old now) came with an internal cooling fan (which most brands don't offer since it costs more money) and a 3-year manufacturer's warranty! Also includes very easy backup software that backs up my entire C: drive and allows me to boot from the external to run Windows if C: should fail.
Bottom line is to never rely on a single hard drive, all of them will fail eventually, it's just a matter of when. Hopefully a company that backs its products up with a 3-year warranty is building them to last though. :) |
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| bas |
I would suggest looking into an external network drive. Basically it just plugs into an available port on your router and acts as a file server. This way multiple computers on the same network can connect to it.
Of course if your network security is vulnerable then anyone on the outside can hack into it just like they would a computer. |
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| lex400sc |
| seagate makes the best hard drives in the world, period. they've been consistently setting all the new benchmarks and records in the data storage industry for years. i just bought 2 500gb seagates, they're at $100 now. 5gb/dollar, can't beat that! |
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| RobertStern |
| quote: | Originally posted by lex400sc
seagate makes the best hard drives in the world, period. they've been consistently setting all the new benchmarks and records in the data storage industry for years. i just bought 2 500gb seagates, they're at $100 now. 5gb/dollar, can't beat that! |
On that note, I have a Seagate External 400GB USB and Firewire drive FOR SALE $80gb |
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| bucke |
| just bought a 750gb seagate drive from frys. works fine so far :D hope it holds up to its reputation. |
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