External Hard Drives

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Looked at another thread on here about media centers(?), but need more specific advice as to external hds. I want to give my brother and sister each a hd and I'm going to put some of my movie collection on them too. Looking for $125 or less each. Larger than 250gb would be good.

Here are two I'm looking at:
Newegg.com - Fantom Drives GreenDrive II 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA External Hard Drive with NTI Shadow 4 Backup Software GDII1000EU - External Hard Drives
Newegg.com - Western Digital Elements 640GB USB 2.0 Midnight Black Portable Hard Drive WDBAAR6400ABK-NESN - External Hard Drives

I don't want to get a shit one that is going to overheat or be slow as fuck, but I've never had an external hd so I wouldn't know what from what anyways.

If there is a better solution that involves internal hds with a casing please link me to both an hd and casing.

I like the idea of USB powered then it could be used on the road by my brother who is a truck driver. Usually he'll have somewhere to plugin his laptop though.

If the two I listed above are decent which should I go with. I'm leaning towards Fantom.



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when it comes to hdd's your'e going to get a lot of different answers because its really all about brand preference, not so much about specs. I personally always go with western digital because i still have all my old western digital drives from like 95 and out of the hundreds i've gone through the years i'm yet to have one fail.
 
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[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-External-WDE1UBK10000N/dp/B001JTQCU8]Amazon.com: Western Digital WD Elements 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDE1UBK10000N (Black): Electronics[/ame]

Got this for 60 bucks on black friday. Have yet to hook it up yet, been in the box collecting dust :x
 
The main one I like is a Western Digital Essential, which has USB2, FW400 and eSATA hookups. On my 13.3 macbook I always use it via the FW400 port which has proven to be faster than USB2.0 (despite 480mbit), and a lot less cpu intensive during backup work. If I had a MBP with an express slot, I would be using the eSATA connection.

I guess the point is , if I were to buy another external, I dunno if I could handle have one that only had the option of USB.
 
The main one I like is a Western Digital Essential, which has USB2, FW400 and eSATA hookups. On my 13.3 macbook I always use it via the FW400 port which has proven to be faster than USB2.0 (despite 480mbit), and a lot less cpu intensive during backup work. If I had a MBP with an express slot, I would be using the eSATA connection.

I guess the point is , if I were to buy another external, I dunno if I could handle have one that only had the option of USB.
 
+1 WD again, I have some 300mb harddrives from my first PC's that still boot up.. Doesn't really matter what you go with, just backup your shit in 3 different places and 2 different locations and you'll be ok.
 
Deliguy said:
when it comes to hdd's your'e going to get a lot of different answers because its really all about brand preference, not so much about specs. I personally always go with western digital because i still have all my old western digital drives from like 95 and out of the hundreds i've gone through the years i'm yet to have one fail.
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yep all about brand/experience. I've had a horrible experience with WD. last 3 HD's were western digital and they all failed within 2-3 years. Then again... 2-3 years is decent I guess.
 
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