i need to get an exterior hardrive...

[stonecoldsoonerfan]

to back up my schtuff at home. what do i buy and where do i buy it at? looking around the 500 gb price range.

thanks in advance.

[Taxman71]

I have a Seagate Free Agent and it has worked great (about $125 for 500GB). The computer geeks at work like the Maxtor best.

[King Crimson]

i've got a 250G Western Digital mybook, which is all music. it's amazing the amount of storage you can buy these days for little cost.

i'm gonna buy 500G for video here purty quick.

[BudSooner]

I'm staying away from Western Digital, the last 3 drives crapped out pretty quickly, they used to build decent drives at one time and now it appears that Seagate and Maxtor are a better choice.

Fujitsu, do they make desktop drives anymore? At one time they were reliable.

[King Crimson]

I'm staying away from Western Digital, the last 3 drives crapped out pretty quickly, they used to build decent drives at one time and now it appears that Seagate and Maxtor are a better choice.

Fujitsu, do they make desktop drives anymore? At one time they were reliable.

haven't had any problems with mine. i've had a maxtor drive screw me, too. i treat all this stuff as disposable and backup shizz on discs. if it was made to last, it wouldn't be made of cheap *** plastic.

hell crap damn, you can buy 180G in something that's about the size of your credit card....these days.

[BudSooner]

Yep, but I like my drives BIG. And that has nothing to do with making up for a lack of something else. ;)

[sooner_born_1960]

I think they're called external drives.

[Hot Rod]

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=414&name=External-Hard-Drives

[Preservation Parcels]

Today's WOOT side deal offers a 320 GBSeagate for $69 (http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/showcaseb/default.asp?showcaseb=woot&source=EWB040108W). At that price, you can take two.

[King Crimson]

Today's WOOT side deal offers a 320 GBSeagate for $69 (http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/showcaseb/default.asp?showcaseb=woot&source=EWB040108W). At that price, you can take two.

that IS a pretty good deal. but, what does "recertified" mean?

[Preservation Parcels]

I'm guessing it means that it was refurbished and is for resale with a new warranty. It's definitely worth reading the fine print.

[sooneron]

G tech RMFO. They will be pretty much be the only ones I buy from now on.

[SoonerTerry]

External hard drives are pretty good to.

[sooneron]

External hard drives are pretty good to.

but can you use them outdoors like the exterior ones?

[SoonerTerry]

but can you use them outdoors like the exterior ones?


Only if you get the vinyl siding add on package

[skycat]

if it was made to last, it wouldn't be made of cheap *** plastic.


If you take one apart you'll find that the plastic housing just contains a regular old hard drive like you'd install in your PC case, plus a circuit board that contains the interface logic (usb, IEEE 1394 or whatever), and maybe a blue led or something.

I will say that I've had two 500 GB Western Digital drives fail in the last 6 months. I back up one from the other, and it's a good thing that I do.

[Sooner_Havok]

I am going with one of these bad boys when I get the fundage!

Time Capsule (http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=F586DABC&fnode=home&nplm=MB277LL/A)

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1411/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/timecapsule_125_080115.jpg

[shaun4411]

Today's WOOT side deal offers a 320 GBSeagate for $69 (http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/showcaseb/default.asp?showcaseb=woot&source=EWB040108W). At that price, you can take two.

god i love woot.

[Sooner_Havok]

smalldog (http://www.smalldog.com/category/x/x/storage/storage/wag113/wag10013/) is pretty good to

[stonecoldsoonerfan]

it seems like when i go to epinions.com and research suggestions that there's good and bad reviews. i guess that there isn't a brand/model out there that doesn't get "it's share" of bad reviews? without spending $3-400 on a model, it appears that seagate/maxtor/etc. seem about even?

[bluedogok]

Seagate and Maxtor are the same drives, Seagate bought Maxtor something like 5 years ago.

[soonerboomer93]

there's people who are fans and who aren't fans of every drive manufacturer. normally i was pretty much a maxtor only guy. Last week i did buy a 750 gb wd my book for about $160 from Best Buy