External Hard Drive

g4m3rof1337 · 06-22-2009, 03:41 AM

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

g4m3rof1337 · 06-22-2009, 09:02 PM

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?

kookooshortman55 · 06-22-2009, 09:32 PM

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?

g4m3rof1337 · 06-22-2009, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kookooshortman55

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?

Well I plan on backing up one of my 500GB drives, that currently has 60GB free, and that's not including games. Then I plan on backing up some things on my current 500GB drive, which isn't much, since it's a fresh install and it has about 300GB free atm.

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.

kookooshortman55 · 06-22-2009, 11:02 PM

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.

g4m3rof1337 · 06-22-2009, 11:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kookooshortman55

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.

Ah OK, I ordered this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822204089 and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124004

06-22-2009, 03:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
g4m3rof1337 Diamond Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chicago Posts: 10,525	External Hard Drive 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 __________________ Desktop/Laptop nForce 750i SLI FTW Q9450 @ 2.66GHz Water Cooled/ T8100 @ 2.10GHz Two XFX 512MB 8800GTs with Accelero S1s / Two 512MB 8600GTs RaidMax 700Watt OCZ 4GB/ 2GB WD 500GB,200GB,80GB/ 320GB Sceptre 20.1'' or 32'' Sharp Aquos HD LCD/ 17'' Widescreen G15, MX518, N52TE/ 4 Harmon/Kardon Speakers w/ Sub. Last edited by g4m3rof1337; 06-22-2009 at 04:02 AM.

06-22-2009, 09:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
g4m3rof1337 Diamond Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chicago Posts: 10,525	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? __________________ Desktop/Laptop nForce 750i SLI FTW Q9450 @ 2.66GHz Water Cooled/ T8100 @ 2.10GHz Two XFX 512MB 8800GTs with Accelero S1s / Two 512MB 8600GTs RaidMax 700Watt OCZ 4GB/ 2GB WD 500GB,200GB,80GB/ 320GB Sceptre 20.1'' or 32'' Sharp Aquos HD LCD/ 17'' Widescreen G15, MX518, N52TE/ 4 Harmon/Kardon Speakers w/ Sub.

06-22-2009, 09:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
kookooshortman55 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: California/Arizona Age: 19 Posts: 1,546	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? __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ @ 2.6GHz GPU: Zotac 8800GT AMP! w/ Akimbo 740/1800/2000 PSU: 450W Corsair VX450 Monitor: Acer 22" X223W Memory: 4GB DDR2 PC2-5300 HDD: 320GB HDD Speakers: Logitech 5.1 X-540 3DMark06: 9521 3DMarks

06-22-2009, 11:02 PM	#5 (permalink)
kookooshortman55 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: California/Arizona Age: 19 Posts: 1,546	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. __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ @ 2.6GHz GPU: Zotac 8800GT AMP! w/ Akimbo 740/1800/2000 PSU: 450W Corsair VX450 Monitor: Acer 22" X223W Memory: 4GB DDR2 PC2-5300 HDD: 320GB HDD Speakers: Logitech 5.1 X-540 3DMark06: 9521 3DMarks

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