Tech question (external hard drives)

[dvda74]

I'm running out of room on my hard drive (all that shemale porn, heh heh) and I'm in the market for an external drive. I'm looking at a 250GB by LaCie and a 200GB by Maxtor. I don't want to spend more than $200. Anyone out there have any experience and/or suggestions? Thanks in advance.

[specialk]

I'm running out of room on my hard drive (all that shemale porn, heh heh) and I'm in the market for an external drive. I'm looking at a 250GB by LaCie and a 200GB by Maxtor. I don't want to spend more than $200. Anyone out there have any experience and/or suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I'm running an Iomega 160GB, paid 150.00..comp usa

[greenkb]

Take a look at lacie's site, you'll be able to pick up a 300GB external drive for about $200. they've also got a clearance corner with reconditioned drives going quite cheap too, http://www.lacie.com/products/clearance/products/?id=10007 . there's also a company called ebuyer that operates in the states as well as the UK, you'll be able to pick up a cheap drive from them too. I've got a 300GB maxtor in a firewire caddy which cost me about $160 for when I hijack my friends fast connection to "acquire" adult material :)

[kukm4]

I use my as backup, I bought a aluminim enclosure and an old 80gb I was not using. Enclosure was 30.00USD.
You could go that way. Here a segate one on sale 300gb 16mb buffer. 150.00USD
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202172922&adid=17662

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

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I'm running out of room on my hard drive (all that shemale porn, heh heh) and I'm in the market for an external drive. I'm looking at a 250GB by LaCie and a 200GB by Maxtor. I don't want to spend more than $200. Anyone out there have any experience and/or suggestions? Thanks in advance.


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[dvda74]

Thanks for the advice folks. From what I've read a lot of these things crap out after a fairly short period of time. True?

[luko]

dont waste the extra money buying external. if u buy internal youll save at least 100 bucks.

install is a sinch, dont be scared to open up your pc and fuck around. to install it is literally undoing 2 screws taking off the siding, putting the new hard drive in, hooking up the ide and power cable, put in mounting screw then close the case and format the drive. it will take you 15 mins max.

heres a phenominal deal on a drive, i just ordered one myself.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144392

[dvda74]

Ok. Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but what do I do with all of the data that is currently on my drive?

[luko]

Ok. Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but what do I do with all of the data that is currently on my drive?

you keep it on there. the only thing a secondary drive would be is more space. and im not talking out of my ass, im a pc tech so you can trust what im saying.

[kukm4]

I would move saved files..video,pictures to 2nd harddrive and also burn a cd or dvd copy as well just to be safe, because you never know when your haddrive might fail or run into a probleme where you have to reformat / re-install

[luko]

I would move saved files..video,pictures to 2nd harddrive and also burn a cd or dvd copy as well just to be safe, because you never know when your haddrive might fail or run into a probleme where you have to reformat / re-install

absolutely, that is rock solid advice kukm4, sweet avatar too, hey now!

[sjamaica]

go to newegg and shop for price, but get a BIGGER drive!!. it's external so it will move to the next machine, music, video, and pictures fill a drive FAST!! get the biggest, fastest drive u can afford now so you wont have to replace it so soon, also a bigger drive can allow you to make backups to it, while you empty space on your startup drive.
if this is a desktop machine, install the new driv, internally, make the new drive the start drive and keep both

[LcKy]

your best bet is www.pricewatch.com, buy an external enclosure and a harddrive seperatley. I recently bought an enclosure for 25 and a 250gig western digital for about 60 - 70 bucks. Saves you a couple 100 bucks. Harddisk wise try 2 stay with maxtor or western digital, thats all i roll wit.

[south ov da border]

Thanks for the advice folks. From what I've read a lot of these things crap out after a fairly short period of time. True?

yea it is. I got a maxtor 200 gig in feb, and by april it died on me. not even 2 months....