External Hard Drives

How much should I expect to pay for a 300GB external hard drive? I needs to store mah child pr0n on one.

Buy a drive and case separately, you'll save a good $70-100.

i recently got a nice sata enclosure with a 320gb drive for $140 CDN

it is currently not being used at all

i paid 80usd for that size

you missed it.... there was a 1 terabyte external hard drive on newegg one week ago for $480

i wish i had the monay

which external hd manufacture is more reliable western digital, laCie or seagate?

laCie is crap. I believe Seagate is Maxtor owned now (not a good thing) so I'd opt for WD drives.

>>7
>I believe Seagate is Maxtor owned now

DO NOT WANT TO HABBEB

>>7
Other way around.

>>9
so its Maxtor is Seagate owned now ?

yes

>>10

Either way, avoid both of them.

What Seagate is one of the best hard drive companies. If you want a good drive Seagate or Western Digital all the way. Though If you want a good external HD look at newegg.com. They have a good selection and decent prices. If you want to bargain basement shop then Nextag is good.

hey guys is there any difference in performance as far as external hard drives go? i mean will it work at the same speed as an internal hard drive?

>>14
External drives run on Firewire or USB2.0 in most cases, which is slower than using internal IDE. You can still do all the same tasks such as play music and videos off the external drive, but running programs or games from will suffer mild performance hit.

>>15 Why the hell would anyone want to use an archive drive to run apps or games from?
Both firewire and USB are perfectly fine for multimedia storage.  I have 4 500Gb USB drives for archiving and backups and they work just fine.  I can disconnect and reconnect them in seconds (meaning I only spin them up when I actually need them)
Two of the drives are Lacie bricks - ok but noisy, and the others are Western Digital (quieter, slightly faster, and with auto-sleep built in - very nice).