Buying An External Drive...

[Evi]

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.

[Paul2]

I like Maxtor for price and performance.

[Evi]

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.

[Living-In-Clip]

HUH?
External?
Why?

[Paul2]

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.

[Paul2]

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.

[Evi]

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. :/

[Living-In-Clip]

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.

[Evi]

I just thought you meant why wouldn\'t I rather just buy a second internal drive, or something.

That\'s blatant copying and pasting paul, damnit we liked you better when you didn\'t make sense.

[Living-In-Clip]

That we did.

[Evi]

Any more external HDD suggestions?

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

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

get a external USB hd rack to ata/sata, wack in your own hd...  easy. Seagate or WD for brands.

If you go for looks and \'stackability\' I suggest this ;



Lacie Lego design HD\'s