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  • Life on Other Planets AKA Johns
    Are you Kidding me??
    • Oct 2005
    • 3087

    External Hard Drive

    I was wondering if anyone knows of the good brands. I am looking to get a 1 terabyte hard drive and was looking at the LaCie, western digital. Or if somone could recommend a brand. The reasons for me getting one are obvious just to store all my music. Thanks guys/gals

  • feather
    Shanghai ooompa loompa
    • Jul 2004
    • 20900

    #2
    Re: External Hard Drive

    You could buy any 1TB harddisk and put them in an external enclosure? That should cost less.

    i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

    Originally posted by Hoff
    a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
    Originally posted by m1sT3rL
    Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

    I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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    • miketpoto
      Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
      • Jan 2005
      • 4223

      #3
      Re: External Hard Drive

      NEVER BUY LACIE....

      trust me

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      • beanzncheez
        Banned
        • Jun 2004
        • 4442

        #4
        Re: External Hard Drive

        I've seen massive amounts of Lacie hard drives in operating rooms and heard nothing but good things from IT people. What gives?

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        • Life on Other Planets AKA Johns
          Are you Kidding me??
          • Oct 2005
          • 3087

          #5
          Re: External Hard Drive

          Originally posted by feather
          You could buy any 1TB harddisk and put them in an external enclosure? That should cost less.
          Sorry mate but you will have to explain what you mean by this

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          • feather
            Shanghai ooompa loompa
            • Jul 2004
            • 20900

            #6
            Re: External Hard Drive

            Those external hard drives you see are basically your typical 3.5" internal drives that you find in your computers. All you need is an external enclosure similar to this with either a USB or Firewire connection. The difference is when you purchase a complete drive from makers like LaCie, it usually comes with some one-button backup function that you might or might not use.




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            i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

            Originally posted by Hoff
            a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
            Originally posted by m1sT3rL
            Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

            I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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            • unkownartist
              Banned
              • Nov 2005
              • 4146

              #7
              Re: External Hard Drive

              Originally posted by johns
              I was wondering if anyone knows of the good brands. I am looking to get a 1 terabyte hard drive and was looking at the LaCie, western digital. Or if somone could recommend a brand. The reasons for me getting one are obvious just to store all my music. Thanks guys/gals
              do what i did m8, buy 2 500 gig instead of 1TB, its much cheaper and if the TB'r goes down @least ur not loosing all ur data, i bought 2 500 sata's and 2 500 externals so i have everything backed up incase of any misshaps

              never trust a hard drive is my moto

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              • unkownartist
                Banned
                • Nov 2005
                • 4146

                #8
                Re: External Hard Drive

                Originally posted by miketpoto
                NEVER BUY LACIE....

                trust me

                all my externals are lacie and i,ve never had 1 problem with any of them

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                • toasty
                  Sir Toastiness
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 6585

                  #9
                  Re: External Hard Drive

                  not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know of any other portable external drives that are bus-powered, like a WD Passport (i.e., that don't require an external power source)? Looking for something 250 MB or bigger. Might just go the Passport route, but I'm not even aware if there are other options. TIA.

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                  • Kamal
                    Administrator
                    • May 2002
                    • 28835

                    #10
                    Re: External Hard Drive

                    I know staples had a 320 Gig Maxtor (bus powered) I saw around Christmas time for about $90. Not sure the deal is still running.
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                    • miketpoto
                      Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
                      • Jan 2005
                      • 4223

                      #11
                      Re: External Hard Drive

                      Originally posted by red1
                      all my externals are lacie and i,ve never had 1 problem with any of them
                      We have had over 70 of them fail in the past 2 years... and their customer service bites it too.

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                      • beanzncheez
                        Banned
                        • Jun 2004
                        • 4442

                        #12
                        Re: External Hard Drive

                        I've got a WD pasport. 2.5" 80GB version and I just hook it up via USB to the laptop and it works like a charm. Small, light-weight and doesn't get hot. You can always get a 1.8" flash drive and an enclosure for it. You can find those at places online like Newegg.

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                        • unkownartist
                          Banned
                          • Nov 2005
                          • 4146

                          #13
                          Re: External Hard Drive

                          Originally posted by miketpoto
                          We have had over 70 of them fail in the past 2 years... and their customer service bites it too.
                          tbh i never have any of them on for more than 10 minutes @ a time and like i say i back up all my data to other sources aswell so tbh i cant really comment fully on the subject

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                          • feather
                            Shanghai ooompa loompa
                            • Jul 2004
                            • 20900

                            #14
                            Re: External Hard Drive

                            Originally posted by toasty
                            not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know of any other portable external drives that are bus-powered, like a WD Passport (i.e., that don't require an external power source)? Looking for something 250 MB or bigger. Might just go the Passport route, but I'm not even aware if there are other options. TIA.
                            From what I know, only 2.5" notebook drives can be bus-powered, anything bigger, ie. your 3.5" internal drives, need an external power source. I use a 2.5" 80GB for portability, and a 3.5" 250GB for home.

                            i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

                            Originally posted by Hoff
                            a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
                            Originally posted by m1sT3rL
                            Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

                            I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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                            • asdf_admin
                              i use to be important
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 12798

                              #15
                              Re: External Hard Drive

                              I have been using Maxtor and Seagate. Personally I like Maxtor because of their 800 Firewire bus and daisy chain option. I have been very lucky with externals. I currently have over 8 external drives and I use them strictly for back up. I buy them in pairs. I have two copies of everything.

                              Just be careful when you go with higher gigs. They tend to have a higher failure rate.
                              dead, yet alive.

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