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I'm looking for an external drive to backup my 500GB drive, which has about 60GB free, then some backups on my current drive. So I'm thinking 750GB should be enough, and I hear bad things about 1TB sized drives failing apparently. Edit, now that I think about it, I'll be open to a 1TB drive.
So here are the two 750s I'm looking at. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136176 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822204087 And then, if I were to get a TB drive, maybe this would be the one. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=M261-8184
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So I'm thinking about getting this..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822204089 This will give me an esata port, right? To use with the drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812186052 And do I treat the drive connected to this like a plug-in-play, or like an internal drive? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812156014 So I'm leaning towards that 1TB drive. Any other suggestions?
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How are you planning on backing up your computer? I have a 320GB HDD (about 90GB free) and I bought a 500GB external for backup. I went through my computer and manually copied over my docs, media, and game save files and I still had about 400GB free. I was literally looking for extra things to dump onto my external to fill it up.
Then again, almost all of my HDD space is taken up by games, and those are pretty much backed up to begin with. How much media do you have?
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So I'm planning on having extra space floating around, for whatever. I'm probably going to end up purchasing this drive, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822204089 with an esata bracket or esata to sata cable, I'm trying to find out if I can enable esata on my 750i.
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Oh okay, I was just wondering how much actual data you had. Program files can be easily replaced, so I wouldn't count those. I would take a look at the Seagates too. Some of their nicer models come with Firewire, just in case you can't get the eSATA to work. If you end up getting a USB HDD there's a Vista tweak that you can do that adds cache to the drive, making larger transfers faster.
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