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Can someone reffer a GOOD external hard drive?
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IM1
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16. December 2007 @ 21:07 |
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I've been looking around for a external hard drive for my pc but cant seem to find any good ones.
Whenever I come across one that sounds goods (good features) I get put off by all the bad reviews. And that with ALL external hard drives i've looked at. I must have looked at ALL the big brands for a external hard drive but cant find one that got good reviews.
Can you guys help?
Im looking for at least 400gb and my price range is upto £80
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tankpower
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16. December 2007 @ 21:15 |
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Seagate and Western Digital are both good. Keep in mind that unhappy customers are more unlikely to write reviews than satisfied ones (and scalding ones at that). There's always the chance you'll get screwed by any brand or unit, but in general those are good bets.
I had a Lacie that died on me, so that's the brand I personally hate.
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16. December 2007 @ 22:41 |
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LaCie are actually one of the best brands of external hard drives.... :S
The best solution of all is to make one yourself. Buy an internal PC hard drive (I recommend the Western Digital WD5000AAKS) and use an IcyBox IB-351 external enclosure for it.
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IM1
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17. December 2007 @ 09:36 |
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17. December 2007 @ 10:41 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
LaCie are actually one of the best brands of external hard drives.... :S
The best solution of all is to make one yourself. Buy an internal PC hard drive (I recommend the Western Digital WD5000AAKS) and use an IcyBox IB-351 external enclosure for it.
Nice enclosure, but tough to find, unless you live in the UK.
This one seems to be a good enclosure. It is for SATA drives.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198004
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IM1
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17. December 2007 @ 11:36 |
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So do you guys recommend i get a external enclosure instead?
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17. December 2007 @ 20:11 |
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IM1
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17. December 2007 @ 20:46 |
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ok now your all just confusing me. So should I get an external enclosure or a external hard drive?
And whats so good about the icybox enclosure?
Which one would be most safe? I wanna store data that is important so I dont want one that dies on me
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17. December 2007 @ 20:48 |
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The DIY approach is safer, but there's no way of guaranteeing your data will never be lost, save if you setup a RAID array, but let's not get into that.
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17. December 2007 @ 20:51 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
What's this then?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817714019
But no, I agree, I hadn't considered the supply of IcyBoxes being low in the US since they're so incredibly popular over here.
I previously did a search for that IcyBox, and nothing showed up. I kid you not. lol
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17. December 2007 @ 21:37 |
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Lol that's fine, they still lack the S-ATA version though.
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18. December 2007 @ 10:17 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Lol that's fine, they still lack the S-ATA version though.
I ordered the one that I posted, earlier. It is for SATA drives and has firewire and USB connections. I hope that it will work well with the laptop that I got my wife, for Christmas. The laptop has a firewire port, along with 3 or 4 USB ports.
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