i’m looking to get an external hard drive for storing my music and photos. i don’t need anything super large (100-200 GB would suffice for now) and would like to spend under 200 bucks. can someone suggest a good, reliable and inexpensive hard drive? danka.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1538960&CatId=136
This is what I use. 250 GB for $80. They also have a 500GB for $125.
I have full trust in the SeaGate company.
Have had my 160 gig SeaGate for about 2 1/2 years, no problems.
::knocks on wood::
I am actually looking into a 500 gig, or a 1 TB. I am able to find a SeaGate 500 for 170 bucks, which is not bad. Just a few years ago it used to be easy to say “1 dollar per 1 gig”. Not so anymore, they are much cheaper.
I have a 500g Western Digital, got it on sale for $125
Western Digital is the only brand I trust.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136025
Werd.
I have only used WD.
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Wow, thanks Selassie… I was going to start a thread like this!
I want to get an external to bring with me for school, so I don’t have to load my laptop up with bullshit.
Also, can someone give me an idea of what can fit on the different sized hard drives?
80, 160, 250, 500…?
i was reading reviews and these things seem pretty sketchy. would i be better off to just burn everything to dvd? i thought it would be cool to have a couple drives that i could store all of my shit on long term, but if there is chance of it failing in a couple years… hmmm.
I’ve had problems with data being lost on dvd backups
What’s the difference between the Seagate 160gb Freeagent Go and the 320gb Freeagent Pro?
Also, I have a mac laptop, will this be a problem with these externals?
And sorry to highjack the thread selassie…
I always backup to DVD and have never had a problem losing data from them.
I always re-verify the files on the burned DVD even if it was burned “successfully”.
Also, burning at 4X greatly reduces your chances of a mis-burn.
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hijack away. i’m glad its relevant for people.
sorry i don’t have any info to help though…
i decided to just get my dell laptop for college with an internal 160 gb hard drive. they had a deal where they were selling inspirons with free 160gb hard drives and free 2gb of ram so i figured id hack into that. 160 gb should do the job for now
Be careful with that train of thought, spooks.
I burned out my laptop many times, although it was not as good as a Dell.
But filling up a machine, especially a laptop, is not really a good idea.
Anyone know the answer to this guy?
Besides the different gig amounts?
No, kind of in general…
the “Go” one is flat and the “Pro” stands straight up…
Is one better for moving around than the other…?s
it depends on what the interface is, it will usually be usb or firewire just check what the drive is and make sure you have a free port of that kind
external drives almost always come formatted as fat32 which is fairly universal, if it’s formatted as something else you can reformat it easily enough using the disk utility program that comes with os x
Sweet…
I think I’m going for that Seagate 160gb, or maybe one a tad bigger. But I’ll probably end up settling on the 160gb.