EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

[Graybeard]

with external hard drives, the difference between 8mb & 16 mb cach just on file transfer/access rate?..does it really matter

[tim]

I just answered the same question when you asked it on another thread. "I doubt 8/16 makes much difference for external drives, the bottleneck is the USB interface, not the disk access time."

[MLphoto]

I use a 250GB comstar external hard drive, keep my pictures, music, videos, etc... on it for backup.

[Graybeard]

I am about to purchase an external hard drive, the SEAGATE FREEAGENT DESKTOP, which is the better option:
500GB or 1TB

[chino79]

2 X 500's is better than 1 TB, it is much better to loose 500 GB of data if one goes down rather than 1TB.;)

[bckane]

I would have to agree....thats why I went with 4x250...in a mini storage case with is own power supply

[Mazu]

I also bought a FreeAgent desktop 640gb last week, soon a 1tb will probably cost the same as the 640 now :)

[Graybeard]

Thanks, I just bought a 500GB, was going to get the 250, but the cost was almost the same!

[M5Man]

I am about to purchase an external hard drive, the SEAGATE FREEAGENT DESKTOP, which is the better option:
500GB or 1TB

Do you have a back up of all these images\ data on an online web back up site as well?

[tim]

I would always buy the biggest drive available. Sure if it crashes you lose the data, but since data should always be on two hard drives the chance of it happening at the same time is remote.

[Graybeard]

Do you have a back up of all these images\ data on an online web back up site as well?
No, my bandwidth is limited to 1GB a month!...too expensive:(

[Zepher]

If the drive is eSATA, then you "may" see a difference.
I personally don't see a difference with my 8, 16, and 32meg cache drives, but I usually buy the one with more cache, just because.