I am looking for an external hard drive with at the most, 300gb, and at the least 140gb. I would do an internal, but it is too much trouble. I like the option of just plug and play with the external.



My question is which is the best company to go with? What do some of you all use? And what is the deal with 7200,6000rpm thing. Just how fast the hard drive moves to get you the file?



I have been download crazy now, but the wireless connections have sucked lately, I get a shitty signal now cause the router was moved to a different location. Oh well, faster than dial up. :tounge:





Thanks

Justin

 

Western Digital is one of the best all around. IBM, now Hitachi is known for having quiet, reliable drives. Maxtor is known for pure capacity, though thier drives are slow and notoriously loud. Seagate has some of the fastest drives around. If you get an external drive you will be most limited by the bandwidth of your interface so drive speed is not as big of an issue. For an external drive used primarily for storage, I would look into Maxtor.

 

Dude, don't be afraid of your computer. There are no spinning gears or pistons in there (now if there were spinning rotors, that would be the selling point for us) buy a less expencive internal. Its as simple as powering off your comp, opening the case and connecting the HDD to the IDE cable.



I would go with a Seagate or a Hitachi (and not because they made the carburator in my Rx-4). Reliability is key.

 

[quote name='RE4' date='Apr 18 2005, 10:29 PM']Dude, don't be afraid of your computer. There are no spinning gears or pistons in there (now if there were spinning rotors, that would be the selling point for us) buy a less expencive internal. Its as simple as powering off your comp, opening the case and connecting the HDD to the IDE cable.



I would go with a Seagate or a Hitachi (and not because they made the carburator in my Rx-4). Reliability is key.


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You do have a point there, i just like that feature of external. I can take it to a friends computer, or hook it up to a laptop if I wanted to play a DVD or play an album. Just an example of the features I want.



I like this one: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-154-403&depa=1 so far.



My price is nothing over 200 bucks pretty much. My g/f is buying it for me.

 

Not bad, not bad at all. Not a bad price either. Remember when 10$ per GB was good .

 

ive really been wanting to pick up one of these, allows normal hard drives to be used externaly, and can eb swapped without shutting down power...

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_techspe...378#description

 

[quote name='RE4' date='Apr 18 2005, 10:45 PM']Not bad, not bad at all. Not a bad price either. Remember when 10$ per GB was good .


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Yeah, newegg has pretty good prices sometimes. I got my CPU fan off there for like 8.50 including the shipping and best buy and circuit city wanted like 20 bucks. Hah, funny story about that fan, that was the only thing wrong with this computer, I got the computer for 50 bucks from Wal-Mart. Then wal-mart procedeed to "terminate" me.



I can't wait to get something, becuase I will download everything on to that. Pictures, video, music, games wise, and use the internal HD for all the programs and such. I AM PURE GENIUS!!! HAHAH!

 

I found my hard drive now. It is not online or anything. It is a western digital 7200rpm 8 or 12mb cache. It is 160gb for only 90 bucks. They have a 250gb same cache and rpm for 130. CHEAP PRICES!!

 

Got that drive filled up with the pornography yet?

 

[quote name='rowtareh' date='Apr 20 2005, 02:01 PM']I found my hard drive now. It is not online or anything. It is a western digital 7200rpm 8 or 12mb cache. It is 160gb for only 90 bucks. They have a 250gb same cache and rpm for 130. CHEAP PRICES!!


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