External Hard Drive - Any recommendations on best price?

I need another external hard drive --- my 500 gig is getting full. I would like to get one or two more 500gig external drives ---does anyone have any recommendations on what is on sale this week?
Thanks.

If you can swing it, get one of these: http://drobo.com/Produ​cts/Index.html

Do you want JBOD or some sort of RAID? Do you want USB, firewire, or Ethernet? You can also just build your own with a SATA enclosure and any drive of your choice.

here's an interesting deal at tiger direct

http://www.tigerdirect​.com …-_-Hard%20Drives_W10-9006

toneyw wrote in post #5910530
If you can swing it, get one of these: http://drobo.com/Produ​cts/Index.html

Very cool. I might have to look into that a little more. Seems like a good long term fit for me.

SOT wrote in post #5911367
Do you want JBOD or some sort of RAID? Do you want USB, firewire, or Ethernet? You can also just build your own with a SATA enclosure and any drive of your choice.

here's an interesting deal at tiger direct

http://www.tigerdirect​.com …-_-Hard%20Drives_W10-9006

I have always used USB but now have a Mac and was thinking about getting firewire.....but hard to beat that tigerdirect deal......wow I remember paying a lot more for my 500gig.

Some of the enclosures include both or even all three interfaces, it is really up to you.
My thought was for $89 you could buy one...and then just wait and then later buy another for even cheaper. At some point the 1TB drives will be pretty cheap.

I remember back in the day a Segate 1GB SCSI drive was like 5 lbs and $1,000...and we all were like WOW who would need that much space....ahhh the early days of the real PCs...Then again my TRS 80 had a cassette tape.

Buy.com has 1TB for $130 after rebate.

http://bensbargains.ne​t they always have some sort of external hdd listed.

I would (and did) get a WD drive from newegg and slap it in an enclosure. I prefer to do that so I know what kind of drive and enclosure I'm really working with.

cdifoto wrote in post #5917143
I would (and did) get a WD drive from newegg and slap it in an enclosure. I prefer to do that so I know what kind of drive and enclosure I'm really working with.

I have never done that but I think it is easy enough that maybe I can handle it. I have been shooting RAW & jpeg for my weddings the past few months which means I have tons of photos. I am trying to get to the point where I can shoot only jpeg for weddings and have to do little post to have quicker turn around time. Storage space has been something I have been running out of.

It is VERY easy...just buy the enclosure of your choice, with the appropriate connectivity that you like, buy a drive and install it, and plug it in. You will probably have to format the drive to your OS spec, but that is easy.

Something like this makes a lot of sense to me...

http://www.newegg.com …aspx?Item=N82E1​6817193048

Any well-priced eSATA drives these days?