External Hard Drive

[asdf_admin]

Re: External Hard Drive

I have been using Maxtor and Seagate. Personally I like Maxtor because of their 800 Firewire bus and daisy chain option. I have been very lucky with externals. I currently have over 8 external drives and I use them strictly for back up. I buy them in pairs. I have two copies of everything.

Just be careful when you go with higher gigs. They tend to have a higher failure rate.

[feather]

Re: External Hard Drive

not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know of any other portable external drives that are bus-powered, like a WD Passport (i.e., that don't require an external power source)? Looking for something 250 MB or bigger. Might just go the Passport route, but I'm not even aware if there are other options. TIA.

From what I know, only 2.5" notebook drives can be bus-powered, anything bigger, ie. your 3.5" internal drives, need an external power source. I use a 2.5" 80GB for portability, and a 3.5" 250GB for home.

[unkownartist]

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We have had over 70 of them fail in the past 2 years... and their customer service bites it too.

tbh i never have any of them on for more than 10 minutes @ a time and like i say i back up all my data to other sources aswell so tbh i cant really comment fully on the subject

[beanzncheez]

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I've got a WD pasport. 2.5" 80GB version and I just hook it up via USB to the laptop and it works like a charm. Small, light-weight and doesn't get hot. You can always get a 1.8" flash drive and an enclosure for it. You can find those at places online like Newegg.

[miketpoto]

Re: External Hard Drive

all my externals are lacie and i,ve never had 1 problem with any of them

We have had over 70 of them fail in the past 2 years... and their customer service bites it too.

[Kamal]

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I know staples had a 320 Gig Maxtor (bus powered) I saw around Christmas time for about $90. Not sure the deal is still running.

[toasty]

Re: External Hard Drive

not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know of any other portable external drives that are bus-powered, like a WD Passport (i.e., that don't require an external power source)? Looking for something 250 MB or bigger. Might just go the Passport route, but I'm not even aware if there are other options. TIA.

[unkownartist]

Re: External Hard Drive

NEVER BUY LACIE....

trust me

all my externals are lacie and i,ve never had 1 problem with any of them

[unkownartist]

Re: External Hard Drive

I was wondering if anyone knows of the good brands. I am looking to get a 1 terabyte hard drive and was looking at the LaCie, western digital. Or if somone could recommend a brand. The reasons for me getting one are obvious just to store all my music. Thanks guys/gals

do what i did m8, buy 2 500 gig instead of 1TB, its much cheaper and if the TB'r goes down @least ur not loosing all ur data, i bought 2 500 sata's and 2 500 externals so i have everything backed up incase of any misshaps

never trust a hard drive is my moto

[feather]

Re: External Hard Drive

Those external hard drives you see are basically your typical 3.5" internal drives that you find in your computers. All you need is an external enclosure similar to this with either a USB or Firewire connection. The difference is when you purchase a complete drive from makers like LaCie, it usually comes with some one-button backup function that you might or might not use.




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[Life on Other Planets AKA Johns]

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You could buy any 1TB harddisk and put them in an external enclosure? That should cost less.

Sorry mate but you will have to explain what you mean by this

[beanzncheez]

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I've seen massive amounts of Lacie hard drives in operating rooms and heard nothing but good things from IT people. What gives?

[miketpoto]

Re: External Hard Drive

NEVER BUY LACIE....

trust me

[feather]

Re: External Hard Drive

You could buy any 1TB harddisk and put them in an external enclosure? That should cost less.

[Life on Other Planets AKA Johns]

I was wondering if anyone knows of the good brands. I am looking to get a 1 terabyte hard drive and was looking at the LaCie, western digital. Or if somone could recommend a brand. The reasons for me getting one are obvious just to store all my music. Thanks guys/gals