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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Evi on December 04, 2005, 03:54:14 PM
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What brand would guys recommend? Which ones have you had the best experience with? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I\'m looking at NewEgg.com and various other sites right now. Haven\'t come to any decisions yet. :/
I\'ll be using this external HDD temporarily until I get my new PC, which will most likely have a 250GB+ hard drive (this current POS has 30GB).
Thanks again.
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I like Maxtor for price and performance.
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I was looking at a Maxtor drive. It was 200GB for around 130 bucks...only it had one USB 2.0 port and nothing else, which is a bit lame.
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HUH?
External?
Why?
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well,
with external hdd, you can use it on any computer with USB 2 or firewire connection that the external HDD supports. Think of it like a USB jumpdrive where you can connect it to any computer and store or transfer the file.
The benefit of external HDD over jumpdrive is that it can store a lot of information and usually transfer files faster too, and are cheaper per byte than Jumpdrive. The only downside of external HDD is that it\'s much bigger than a jumpdrive, but that shouldn\'t be a problem since it\'s still portable and compact in my opinion.
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Of course, the same can be said about Internal HDD where you can connect it to a different computer\'s HDD. The biggest downside is of course, inconvenient.
Imagine you want to transfer files from your computer to your brother\'s or your friend\'s computer or vice versa. If you use an external HDD, its more convenient since you can just copy the file from your Internal HDD to your external HDD. Then bring your external HDD to your friend\'s house or your brother\'s room and send all the files over his computer.
While with Internal HDD, you have to open up the computer\'s case while it is off, and unplug the IDE and powe cable, then carry the HDD to other location, say your friend\'s house. Then, you have to open up your friend\'s computer case while his computer is turned off, and connect your HDD alongside with your friend\'s HDD via IDE cable(s) in the motherboard.
That could be somewhat inconvient and also the internal HDD is more fragile than external one imo. Which means you have to be more careful when carrying them around.
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HUH?
External?
Why?
Um...what Paully said. I\'m only borrowing this current PC from my uncle and will be giving it back hopefully soon when I get a new graphics workstation. I want an easy way to transfer all of the files from this PC to my new one. Burning a million CDs and then uploading all the files that way would be a bitch. So I\'m going to get an external HDD. I have 32 gigs of stuff I need to transfer. :/
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Why do we let Paul post? ...:rolleyes:
I was being sarcastic, but obviously someone couldn\'t pick up on it.
Thank\'s for the play by play tho\', Paul. We apperciate it.
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I just thought you meant why wouldn\'t I rather just buy a second internal drive, or something.
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That\'s blatant copying and pasting paul, damnit we liked you better when you didn\'t make sense.
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That we did.
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Any more external HDD suggestions?
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western digital or maxtor
thats it
we\'ve gone through 6 or 7 different brands of external and those are the only two that havent had issues with
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get a external USB hd rack to ata/sata, wack in your own hd... easy. Seagate or WD for brands.
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If you go for looks and \'stackability\' I suggest this ;
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lacie.com%2Fimgstore%2Fproduct_medium%2Fhd_brick_mobile_red-blue.jpg&hash=897e922b9c29d4c43816bf10754cba9618c5bfc0)
Lacie Lego design HD\'s (http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10701)
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I\'m thinking about an external hard drive. I have an 80 gig hard drive in my laptop (well 60 after all that crap Dell put on my computer) and I\'m filling it up with crap. I wanna get some of the media off of my compy and onto another hard drive so my hard drive inside the laptop is just programs and such.
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^^
Yeah, porn will fill up your hard drive fast. ;)
Lacie Lego design HD
:rofl:
I\'ve heard LaCie is a good brand. They sell Terabyte drives, which is nuts. But I don\'t think the Lego design would fit in with everything else I have.
get a external USB hd rack to ata/sata, wack in your own hd... easy. Seagate or WD for brands.
I\'ll keep that in mind.
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I\'m with Soulgrind, the best and cheapest way to get a good external HD, I have two with that method.
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just get a drive enclosure and buy any standard harddrive you want to put in it. Then just hook it up via usb 2.0
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Originally posted by EviscerationX
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Yeah, porn will fill up your hard drive fast. ;)
Seriously. I had to delete so much stuff on my computer (not just porn) so I have enough room.
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Lacie for me. Coz my G4 Powerbook is useless without it with the editing space I need.
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just get a drive enclosure and buy any standard harddrive you want to put in it. Then just hook it up via usb 2.0
That sounds simple enough.
Lacie for me. Coz my G4 Powerbook is useless without it with the editing space I need.
Yeah, I deal with uncompressed images/video/whatever all the time and it fills up space fast. :/
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Originally posted by JBean
just get a drive enclosure and buy any standard harddrive you want to put in it. Then just hook it up via usb 2.0
OMG!! i would have Never thought of that.
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Would buying an enclosure cost more than buying the drive alone?
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it seemed like he was looking for one with a built in drive. So, I thought it would be nice to tell him to get one so that he could remove the HD in the future.
Not everyone is amazing like you soulgrind
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I think souly got rejected last night and he\'s taking his anger out on the rest of the boards....either that or he hasn\'t been laid by Samwise in a while :)
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Enclosures are 8-25 dollars, HDDs are pretty cheap now.
This enclosure was 13 dollars, and a 300 GB HDD (refurbished Seagate, as I recall) was another 120. After tax/shipping, I got an additional 300 GB for about 150 bucks, which wasn\'t bad. Transfer rates decent enough, fine for mass storage.
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lol @ the HDD cooler and cd burner
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Gar, thar be no CD burner in that pic, and nary thar be a HDD cooler, either!
*edit*
Sorry about the pirate talk... I was just playin\' a piratey game.
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:rofl: at "cd reader" then
and what\'s in the top right hand corner of the window? looks like you zip tied a 80mm fan there
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Lets see... yes, this being my \'old\' computer, it has an ordinary CD reader, since that\'s the drive I use to rip all my music CDs. The top right... that\'s my \'old old\' comptuer\'s external SCSI DVD/RW, very old... it\'s a 1x writer, as I recall. Don\'t really use it much anymore (obviously). That computer is basically there more like a print server and scanner station now.
To make things clear:
My good computer - is current, fast, and kept completely clean. I use it exclusively for gaming. Not pictured.
My \'old\' computer - Is a few years old now, has lots of HDD space (600 GB), and my CD/DVD Burners/readers hooked up to it. I use this computer for day-to-day surfing, burning, ripping, crunching, media playback, and downloading. It\'s a lot \'messier\', and I have to format/reinstall every year or so because of all the crap I use it for. It\'s the black w blue computer that the HDD is sitting on.
My \'old old\' computer is quite old, I think it\'s a PIII, which I use as a print server/scanning station. Everything of course is networked nicely, but in general that computer mostly sits there crunching SETI@home :p It\'s the regular ol\' beige computer under the very old external DVD/RW.
Generally I buy a new computer every 2-3 years, and everything moves \'down a level\'. So in a couple years, I\'ll get rid of the \'old old\' beige computer, my black/blue computer becomes my print/scan station, my current gaming computer becomes my day-to-day, and I build a new gaming rig.
Just for fun, looking around my computer room, I spy, with my little eye:
3 computers, 2 full towers, 1 mid.
1 laptop.
3 external DVD Writers, 1x 8x and 16x
9 speakers, 2 subwoofers.
2 printers. 1 scanner.
5 internal CD/DVD readers, 1 3.5" disk drive (Wow! I forgot I had that).
1 19" CRT monitor.
2 19" LCD monitors.
2 Masterpiece plus power stations.
1 cable modem.
1 external HDD enclosure.
3 wireless keyboards. 2 wireless mouse, and 1 wired mice. 2 mouse pads.
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it seemed like he was looking for one with a built in drive. So, I thought it would be nice to tell him to get one so that he could remove the HD in the future.
You thought correctly.
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Originally posted by Titan
I think souly got rejected last night and he\'s taking his anger out on the rest of the boards....either that or he hasn\'t been laid by Samwise in a while :)
No, i was just referring to my earlier post where i said the same thing, just in different words.
duh!!
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lol@Seti.
I didn\'t think anyone done that still.
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Heh heh, I\'ll be getting the last laugh when I get an equal credit share for finding Antar, the friendly alien homeworld. In any event the seti@home project is still going strong. There\'s a lot of space to cover.
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I think it would be badass to have a central server somewheres in your house just using a wimpy celeron or sempron (which actually should be more than enough). Just load it with with HDDs, proper cooling and connect it to the ethernet and you\'re ready to go.
I\'m gonna do that when I grow up, I swear.
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Space...It is ...finite!
eh?
On a side note - I see Newegg.com still has 300 gig\'ers for 120 or so.
Sweet!
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Space...It is ...finite!
Yes it is, unfortunately.
On a side note - I see Newegg.com still has 300 gig\'ers for 120 or so.
Sweet!
Seriously? I didn\'t see one for that much.
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only problem is most external enclosures are for IDE drives. I would strongly suggest getting one for SATA. SATA drives are much faster than IDE, you also need SATA if you want to RAID a couple of drives later on when you build your uber comp.
remember to search for internal Hds, that is what you need with an enclosure. There are tons more to choose from around $120 - $130 on newegg
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Ok...I think I\'m going to do that instead. Thanks for the help.