What's the most spacious usb drive out there?

Hard drive sizes are getting up to 2,000 gigabytes (2 terabytes) and larger. I would recommend getting an external enclosure for a Serial ATA hard drive that way you could use it as an external or convert it to an internal hard drive. Take a look at the following:

Rosewill RX35-AT-SU BLK Aluminum 3.5" Black USB 2.0 External Enclosure - $24
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...rue&Keywords=(keywords)&Page=1#scrollFullInfo

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1 Terabyte 7200 RPM 32MB Cache Serial ATA Hard Drive - $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...e=samsung_spinpoint_f3-_-22-152-185-_-Product
 
Well I'm looking for something (using a usb port) that can transfer alot of files from an older computer and something that can be used casually. Sandisk was the last one used but it's too small.
 
2048Megabytes said:
Hard drive sizes are getting up to 2,000 gigabytes (2 terabytes) and larger. I would recommend getting an external enclosure for a Serial ATA hard drive that way you could use it as an external or convert it to an internal hard drive. Take a look at the following:

Rosewill RX35-AT-SU BLK Aluminum 3.5" Black USB 2.0 External Enclosure - $24
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...rue&Keywords=(keywords)&Page=1#scrollFullInfo

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1 Terabyte 7200 RPM 32MB Cache Serial ATA Hard Drive - $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...e=samsung_spinpoint_f3-_-22-152-185-_-Product
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Can this work in Libaries and other public computers? As well as older personal computers?

jamesd1981 said:
sandisk are the best usb drive, the highest ive seen is 32gb
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I need something bigger.
 
Are you talking usb hard drives? Or flash drives? I got a 2TB hard drive which is something in proximity of 2,048 GB. (I think. I can never remember.) It was on sale for 79.99, but you can probably get a 1TB for about that price now.

Or, you can get a Flash Drive that is 16 GB for about 50 bucks on amazon.
 
bkribbs said:
Are you talking usb hard drives? Or flash drives? I got a 2TB hard drive which is something in proximity of 2,048 GB. (I think. I can never remember.) It was on sale for 79.99, but you can probably get a 1TB for about that price now.

Or, you can get a Flash Drive that is 16 GB for about 50 bucks on amazon.
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I don't care which I just want something I can use for large older personal computer/public file transfers.
 
Yeah your gonna need an external hard drive if your looking at 250-500gb. its its just for file transfer speed isnt really and issue so just make sure its USB plug in and your set
 
SslagleZ28 said:
Yeah your gonna need an external hard drive if your looking at 250-500gb. its its just for file transfer speed isnt really and issue so just make sure its USB plug in and your set
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...or eSATA if your PC supports it, but this is much rarer, so its not going to work in as many situations as USB would. (but it's capable of much faster transfer speeds then USB 2.0)
 
idyllhands said:
...or eSATA if your PC supports it, but this is much rarer, so its not going to work in as many situations as USB would. (but it's capable of much faster transfer speeds then USB 2.0)
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I think he said he needed USB if not mistaken, i think its an older computer, but yeah esata would def be faster
 
I would just buy a big 2.5" hard drive (I've seen 750GB notebook drives going for very reasonable prices) and get an enclosure for it. I personally would go for any of Samsung, WD, Seagate (whichever happens to be cheapest at the time). As for the enclosure, I don't think it matters all that much but I have a Vantec NexStar something and I have no complaints, it looks very good too.
 
I find the portable USB 2.0 external Hd is the easiest way for transfere files. It just like the usb flash drives only with larger capacity. Plug in the usb cable and start transfere files, no power adapter to worry about, if you use hard drive enclosure, don't you have to have a power adapter?
 
if you use hard drive enclosure, don't you have to have a power adapter?
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No. "2.5 hard drives in enclosures are essentially identical to normal external hard drives (most "external hard drives" are just laptop hard drives with a case and USB logic) - they need no power adapters. You're probably thinking of bigger "3.5 enclosures for desktop hard drives - those things do need more power than USB can supply.
 
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