External Hard Drive Question

[xrey]

I need to get an external hard drive to back-up my digital mediia. On of the products I am looking at is the Seagate external 250G USB goes for around $75. I am not looking for anything complicated or with too many bells and whistles. Just something reliable, fast, and easy to use. Any suggestions / recommendations are appreciated.

Thanks
Rey

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

Western Digital, Seagate is good, Western Digital is reliable

[saifan]

Western Digital, Seagate is good, Western Digital is reliable
Co-sign. I've had my 250GB WD for over a year now with no problems.

[xrey]

Western Digital, Seagate is good, Western Digital is reliable

Thanks for the feedback JWBL and Saifan.

What an effed up fourth quarter for Eli ... for the first time ever i was cheering for the baby and he got my hopes up for 3 quarters. The NYG defense should take the blame.

[tgirlzoe]

i have a seagate 7200.10 250gb internal. seems pretty good so far, nice and quiet. single platter, i believe.

not a big wd fan myself but always backup any drive of course and off-site as well if its important.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

I dont trust any drive. I am glad Apple is considering new hard drive laptop concepts for the next MacBook due out in a few.

but for what it's worth I'll back Western Digital

Maxtor IMO is russian roulette

[blckhaze]

I've got 2 western ditigal 250GB portables HD's for my labtop that store my Project data for work and school. They can be a little annoyin to carry but, I've never had any major problems with em, and i've drop one repeatedly. Still working.

[xrey]

I've got 2 western ditigal 250GB portables HD's for my labtop that store my Project data for work and school. They can be a little annoyin to carry but, I've never had any major problems with em, and i've drop one repeatedly. Still working.

Thanks BH - was thinking of getting a portable rather than a desktop HD. Portable might come in handy one day and they run off the USB connection.

[blckhaze]

there great, especially if you use multiple comps or travel alot while workin. they pug in, and are usable almost instantly. I;ve never changed from mac to pc or vice versa, but the do work from different Windows setups. even win 95 (LOL)

[goldensamba]

CMS are by the far the best. Check out http://cmsproducts.com/products_backup.htm
to see what they have available. If you are looking for reliability and ease of use then they are the ones to go with. Western Dig and Seagate quality has gone to crap.

[KiraHarden]

I need a internal hard drive

[jayevil]

Kira, if I was closer to Milwaukee, you could get all 9 inches of my hard drive....... you are a hottie!!!!!


:P 8) :D



But to answer the question at hand, I got an external Toshiba hard drive for Christmas and it SUCKS....compared to the Seagate drive I already have.


It appears someone tried to save money and they fucked up. I'm now trying to see if they got the reciept so I can get another Seagate drive.

[justatransgirl]

DON'T get less than a treabyte (1000GB) if you can afford it.

At least a 500GB. Trust me you will fill it up.

We do a lot of video work and offhand I think we have 4 external 500-750GB drives, Jessica has like 3 more in her workstation (the parts for that monster cost over $2,500). And I've got two 350GB drives in mine.

Yeah, we like a lot of storage...

Giggle,
TS Jamie :-)

[Sailord]

500 GB Seagate SATA2 is a good choose (~ 75$). But on your PC or Laptop USB 2.0 is recommended for good performance.

[ILuvGurls]

i can speak highly of the western digitial HDs as well, own a 500 & 250(porn collector) and they are very reliable and functional.

[Ecstatic]

I have two Acomdata externals which are superb, fast and reliable.

[Falrune]

If you can, get a firewire drive

[happychris]

I have 3 external WD drives I use for various things. So far so good.

[Rubber Soul]

Whatever you get, stay away from Maxtor HDs!!! Those things are horrible. I had 2 fail on me. I currently have a WD as my master HD and a Seagate as the slave.