External Hard Drive

g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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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/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136176

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822204087


And then, if I were to get a TB drive, maybe this would be the one.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3572142&Sku=M261-8184
 
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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?
 
kookooshortman55 said:
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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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/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822204089 with an esata bracket or esata to sata cable, I'm trying to find out if I can enable esata on my 750i.
 
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.
 
kookooshortman55 said:
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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Ah OK, I ordered this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822204089 and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124004
 
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