External Hard Drive which one ??

Hello, I am currently looking for an external Hard drive but am a little confused about buying the right one. Online,local,computer store, retail store like costco...? I am looking for a 200 GB.

Any suggestion about something that you bought/know and really like

Thank you

Trek 9.8

I have a 120 GB Western Digital external that i really like... it's easy to use, lightweight, comes with the USB cord, is fast, and price was $100 at best buy six months ago...

Check around at compusa, office depot, staples, and amazon to see what you can come up with. With it being tax season, they should be advertising these pretty hot and heavy

I have bought Western Digital My Book Essential 250GB external hard drives on two occasions from two different stores for $99 each. It seems to be a model that goes on sale often.

Have Fun,

I've become a big fan of Western Digital hard external drives ever since I dropped mine from 4-feet onto a vinyl floor and it still worked find. The case broke open and the drive started coming out, but I just put some duct tape on it after shoving it back in. I did a full scan of the disc and there were no errors. I was able to access all my files.

With that said, I still bought a replacement for it, figuring a drop like that might cause premature failure eventually.

I like externals with USB2 and Firewire, along with an On/Off switch.

I just bought a Western Digital Premium MyBook for $249 from a Canadian Costco. It's a great deal because at Best Buy, the same one is about $400.

It comes with USB 2.0, Firewire, looks pretty good, and you can stack them!

I have a Western Digital Premium MyBook 250gb. I absolutely love it. When I get th the 500gb I will go with the Essential. I really don't need the Firewire interface for my computer. It is quite cool and dependable.

Scott

Seagate forever!!! I do NOT have experience with external HDDs, but I can say that Seagate provides the longest warrenties for their products. Their products are also on par with, if not better than, Western Digital's. That excludes the Raptor series of course

Thanks a lot. It looks like western digital is the way to go

Trek 9.8

It depends on what you want to do. If you want portable SmartDisk Firelite is the way to go or the Western Digital one at costco. They both are really really good. I have a Firelite Firewire 400 100GB and its freaking beautiful. I know it the max size for the firelite is 160GB. It also depends on what kind of computer you have. On my powerbook g4 i couldn't power the USB drives but i could power the Firewire ones. Like i said it all depends on what you want. Portability vs. Size.

Just grab the hard drive of your choice and an external enclosure. Much cheaper

Echo_ wrote in post #2593707
Just grab the hard drive of your choice and an external enclosure. Much cheaper

Yes, this is cheaper and it's also more scalable, because you can take out an old drive and put in a new one. The problem I've had with enclosures though, is that they have been a bit slower than the other ones.

The Costco one is a sweet deal for 500GB. If you shoot RAW, then I figure you need some pretty big. Mines is already about 137 GB full.

Yes, buy an enclosure and slap a Seagate drive into it, if you need to get a bigger drive in the future, you can swap it out easily, whilst maintaining the warranty of the drive itself.

if u are computer tech inclined, it will save you about 50% to buy a external h/d, a 500 GB is like $150 now, and get a decent 5.25" external enclosure for ard 35-50 and you have a 500GB external H/D for about $200.

U'll get around 1/2 the storage space for around the same price if you get the ready made ones

Why get a 5.25", a 3.5" enclosure will do just fine, the 5.25" is for CD/DVD drives...

Also have a WD external HDD here, 250Gb, can't remember price got it a few years ago (less than £180 then). Plug and go, USB 2, never given me any trouble.

Neil...