Recommend me an external hard drive!

[ShinRa]

Well now that you guys scared the shit out of me telling me my disk can be getting scratched up (it has no power button so ive been unplugging it every time i was done with it incase noone saw the thread), I'm lookin for a new hd. Anywhere between 160-200 gigs will do, price doesnt really matter, and it must have a power button :hmph: The most imporant thing is that its a reliable and will last me a few years...hopefully longer. I have a lot of very personally important files that I can't trust to the hands of an average external drive. So recommend me one!

 

[Asus]

Lacie 160GB or 250GB.

 

[Link]

You could also consider an external enclosure. You just get that and a normal HDD, put the HDD in the enclosure and connect it to a PC via USB.

 

[EVIL]

Maxtor One Touch II 200GB External Firewire / USB Hard Drive

I have one myself, and I love it.

 

[Lahire149]

firewire

 

[bryanf445]

You could also consider an external enclosure. You just get that and a normal HDD, put the HDD in the enclosure and connect it to a PC via USB.

whoa how much do those confound demonries cost?

 

[Asus]

If you make your own, just make sure it has a fan in the enclosure. Don't want an overheated harddrive. 39$ Retail for a good USB one or more for firewire.

 

[WhiteZero]

Get an External Enclouser and buy a regular hard drive for it.
You'll save alot of money and it's more versitile.

 

[ShinRa]

am i in the right direction with this one?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...72282&_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

I've been using a "pocket" external drive for a couple of years now with no problems (no power button). You can always use the "safely remove hardware" thing like with PC cards. The pocket versions with a laptop drive (like this one) are much more portable and convenient, but cost more and you can only get them to about 120GB as far as I know.

It sounds like you'll be using it more for backup than file transport, but I wouldn't trust anything important to just one other drive. If it's something you can't live without, put it on mirrored drives and external at least, and maybe have another copy on DVD just for good measure...

 

[JMan]

I wouldn't go for a Lacie drive. I used to work with them and we had so many failures it was unreal. They also run really warm/hot as there is no ventilation. I'd strongly recommend against getting one of these.

 

[duffers20]

Western Digital and Maxtor make good external HD's. Worth a look with them, I know my dad is happy with his maxtor model.

 

[Asus]

I wouldn't go for a Lacie drive. I used to work with them and we had so many failures it was unreal. They also run really warm/hot as there is no ventilation. I'd strongly recommend against getting one of these.

Good to know. Thats the first actual complaint I've ever heard against them.