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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Titan on August 01, 2007, 09:24:37 AM

Title: Need an external hard drive
Post by: Titan on August 01, 2007, 09:24:37 AM

Vid\'s thread of hard drives got me thinking about this. I need an external hard drive because I have way too much music and I\'d like to rip my cds to my computer too so I don\'t have to take them to school. What should I be looking for? I\'m looking at 300 gigs and want best deal/reliability at the same time.

Title: Need an external hard drive
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on August 01, 2007, 10:10:52 PM

Honestly, if I was you, I\'d just buy an internal drive an convert it to external. It\'d be cheaper in the long run, you could pick up a 300 gig SATA drive and external case fairly cheap.

Title: Need an external hard drive
Post by: Titan on August 02, 2007, 09:45:17 PM

Quote from: Raz The Friggin Grea

Honestly, if I was you, I\'d just buy an internal drive an convert it to external. It\'d be cheaper in the long run, you could pick up a 300 gig SATA drive and external case fairly cheap.

I was thinking about that. Any recommendations on internal hard drives?

Title: Need an external hard drive
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on August 02, 2007, 10:26:23 PM

320gig Sata II 16meg Cache, Seagate.

Title: Need an external hard drive
Post by: Samwise on August 03, 2007, 12:23:48 AM

Quote from: Titan

I was thinking about that. Any recommendations on internal hard drives?

Just get a brand name 400+ gb and you\'re set. Go for as much cache as possible, low seektime.

I\'ve had some Samsung drives in the past and they\'ve always been fast, quiet and reliable.

Title: Need an external hard drive
Post by: mm on August 03, 2007, 01:58:43 PM

you can\'t put hard drive and reliability in the same group.

if your files are that important, back them up twice because one drive WILL fail at some point.

Title: Need an external hard drive
Post by: Titan on August 04, 2007, 10:00:17 PM

Quote from: mm

you can\'t put hard drive and reliability in the same group.

if your files are that important, back them up twice because one drive WILL fail at some point.

The things that are most important to me are pictures. I have pictures on my hard drive that date back to junior year of high school when I got my first digital camera. I back up my pictures on DVDs and keep them safely away in my drawer. My music and movies can always be reacquired. I probably should back up my old school work though.