external hard drives

robj · 12-10-2006, 01:56 AM

If you where to look for a good quality external hard drive to store about 300 gigabytes on it. Which one would you buy? There is so many out there. I really don’t know what to choose. Thanks

starcab · 12-10-2006, 02:59 AM

Personally I would buy and internal disk and place it in a "IDE to USB" case to use it as external.

**The_Other_One** · 12-10-2006, 04:32 AM

Sometimes you can find cheap external drives, sometimes it's cheaper to get the external enclosure and a hard drive separately... Personally, I'd probably do the same as Starcab and just get my own enclosure and HD... You just have to make sure it's IDE(PATA) and not SATA. As for brands, I'm pretty loyal to Western Digital. Newer Seagates have given me problems, and Maxtor...NEVER AGAIN! Some people have spoken highly about some of the Samsung drives, and they are apparently quite fast, too...

pdc76 · 12-10-2006, 07:34 AM

they make usb external enclosures with sata interfaces inside too:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...Tab=2&NoMapp=0

The_Beast · 12-10-2006, 07:46 AM

if you have to get an external hard drive i would get a Mybook from WD, but if you do get the best one, it comes with firewire 400, 800 and usb 2.0. it also has a gauge to tell you how much more room you have and it shut it self down when not being use which really extends the life of you HDD

i would get an external enclosure and a HDD and put it together myself. if you do get a HDD case look at getting one with all the feature you can

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robj New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7	external hard drives If you where to look for a good quality external hard drive to store about 300 gigabytes on it. Which one would you buy? There is so many out there. I really don’t know what to choose. Thanks

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The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 25 Posts: 13,422	Sometimes you can find cheap external drives, sometimes it's cheaper to get the external enclosure and a hard drive separately... Personally, I'd probably do the same as Starcab and just get my own enclosure and HD... You just have to make sure it's IDE(PATA) and not SATA. As for brands, I'm pretty loyal to Western Digital. Newer Seagates have given me problems, and Maxtor...NEVER AGAIN! Some people have spoken highly about some of the Samsung drives, and they are apparently quite fast, too... __________________ Primary- i7 920 \| 6GB RAM \| 9800GT \| 160+160+500GB Secondary- Athlon X2 4200 \| 2GB RAM \| 7600GT \| 80+250GB Netbook - Atom N280 \| 2GB RAM \| GMA945\| 160GB

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The_Beast Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wisconsin Age: 18 Posts: 3,300	if you have to get an external hard drive i would get a Mybook from WD, but if you do get the best one, it comes with firewire 400, 800 and usb 2.0. it also has a gauge to tell you how much more room you have and it shut it self down when not being use which really extends the life of you HDD i would get an external enclosure and a HDD and put it together myself. if you do get a HDD case look at getting one with all the feature you can __________________ Rendering Machine - Gigabyte DS3L P35 - - C2D E6550 - - Corsair XMS2 2Gb - Seagate 'Cuda 320Gb - Sapphire 2600 XT 256mb - - Antec Earthwatt 430 watt - - Antec New Solution Series Case - - Hp w1907 monitor -

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