External Harddrive - I NEED MORE MEMORY
JRoot
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All the music and pictures and other high-volume files on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad, vintage 2004) are cramming it up. I need more memory. What does The Strut recommend?
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do it.
Western Digital Passport (250 GB for about $120).
I'm dumping my music on there and using my Lacie external for backups (Time Machine related).
which one did you get?
8mb cache minimum (16mb preferred)
7200rpm minimum for video/music streaming & serrrrrrato
Steer clear of Maxtor & Lacie
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I can't remember... its at home and I'm at work. Its worked fine so far though. I'll check when I get home. I use it mostly for storage.
That Western Digital Passport sounds good.
The 320 GB is out now for around $150. I love the no need for a AC adapter.
Tho, I'm thinking about buying a 1TB SATA 3 Gb/s 7200rpm for $265
why i was thinking of ing a backup one but do you care to elaborate
i have a 350 lacie that was super cheap for a mysterious reason
Whats the cons on a portable? Its seems the way to go, but there has to be a catch.
Just that you can't really get bigger than 320 GB right now or faster speeds like say a 1 TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200rpm 32MB drive.
Two of my friends had these Western Digitals crap out on them. I believe they left the HD's on and connected to the computer for extended periods of time. I mayself, have one. I dropped it, that one broke from the one fall. It was easy to replace through WD, got a new one. I think I've have had the new one for about 9 months, maybe more with no issues. I do eject the HD when I am not using it and am extra careful with it.
Yeah ... I'm definitely planning on backing up everything I keep on this thing. I'm going with the assumption that it's going to poop the bed within a year or two. Though, I do eject drives when disconnecting them and I also grabbed one of these cases for when I bring it with me:
Lacie are notorious for unreliability. You may not have any problems with yours but supposedly, they have a very high failure rate. I've never bought one personally. I did want the rugged FW 7200rpm external for Serrrrrrrrato, but I read a lot of reports on failures and issues with the drive not mounting properly, that I went with WD.
With my data, I'm not taking that chance.
Funny story about that. My sister asked me which ext HD she should get to put her work projects on, so we went down to to the local Microcenter. Looked through all the drives that I recommended and she finally decides, against my recommendation, to get a Porsche because it matched her G5 tower and "it's a Porsche".
fuck
thats what i have...
hope it holds another couple of months
backup backup backup...
Did it. 500gb on sale at my local best buy for $139.99. Now my computer is happy again.
Thanks again everybody for your advice.
JRoot
be careful... my WD mybook died on me about a month ago. lost over 200 gigs of schitt. data recovery is gonna cost me btwn $300 - $900 if they can even save the schitt at all.
its a pain in the azz because i have (had) about 1000 gigs of schitt, but now i'm just backing up everything on extra ext HDs PLUS putting the real important schitt on DVD.
i know a few other people who's mybooks died on them recently... might be a reason why they've been on sale a lot. beware...
Thanks for the warning Phill. If this ish breaks, I'll be kinda put out. I won't be putting any really important stuff on there. Just my Phill Most Chill mp3s
phill most chill mp3s = not
For real?! I'm planning on buying one of these tomorrow after work! They're $120 at Targhetto.
What do you guys recommend?
I'm pretty sure it IS national, but what do you guys suggest? Western Digital and SimpleTech seem to be the best deals.
- spidey