Which External Hard Drive?

[ginger_55]

Do you like? NEVERMIND, you can delete. I ordered one, a Maxtor something 111 from buy.com thru google. Good price. I will just "pray" that it works.


ginger

[MikeKelly]

Do you like? NEVERMIND, you can delete. I ordered one, a Maxtor something 111 from buy.com thru google. Good price. I will just "pray" that it works.


ginger


try this

http://www.caldigit.com/FireWireVR.asp or sata solution
http://www.caldigit.com/S2VRDuo.asp

[Fred Maurer]

I have 5 Segate external hard drives. No problems to date. The storage capacity keeps going up and the price is coming down. I use one for system back up and others strictly for photo storage. 400 GB = about $300.00. Here is one link;
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7714967&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat33200050002&id=1138086736825

Fred

[UT Scott]

I just did some external HD shopping myself. After spilling coffee on my laptop I figured I should have my stuff backed up somewhere. I ended up buying two (well my dad did :wink). First one we got was a Seagate 160 gig one, it was on sale at Bestbuy for 80 bucks and seems to work great. You can barely tell it's running at all. The other one we (the one I got to keep :D) is the Western Digital mybook or something, it's also 160 gig and we got it on sale for 80 bucks. I heard something about a Western Digital 250 gig one for 60 or 70 bucks at Bestbuy but when I went in they said they were all sold out and that it was a "black friday" sale. So i'm not sure if they're going to have that model at that price again. :dunno

[Newsy]

I make my own.

I use one of these SNT2316C external cases with the SATA2 interface for the drive and Firewire400 and USB2.0 ports for connecting to a PC/Mac.

http://www.dansdata.com/sntboxes.htm

http://www.snt.com.tw/product.php?mode=category&cid=14

It uses an external brick for power and has a fan in it - imho very important when using a 7200rpm drive in it. The other thing about these SNT cases is that they use a "good" Firewire chipset. Some other brands have a chipset, starts with a "P" (sorry... can't recall exactly) that has proven problematic.

Then I buy a 3.5" harddrive and install it. I've been using a Seagate 160G in my unit and am about to get a second in which I'll install a 320G Seagate 7200rpm drive. They've been running about $100 to 110 CAD locally. It requires you to format and partition it but that is easy and doesn't take long.

My local shop has the SNT enclosures under a "Genware" brand name but a search on the 2316C part number should help locate a unit.

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