Recommend a hard drive?

Question

I need a new hard drive. I have an older model dell dimension that only has 20gb harddrive. Would you recommend a portable external hard drive or just install a new internal one?

Answer 1

Hard drives are all standard sized. Any off the shelf drive should work. YOu should also be able to fit the second hard drive right under your current one inside the computer.

Maxtor Drives seem to have a higher failure rate than most drives.

Many people have their own favorites and brands that they dont like because they had one die and lost all of their data one time. Being in the computer business I see all the drives that go bad, and Maxtor has a much higher failure rate than Hitachi (which was once IBM) Western Digital and Seagate.

Hard drives die all the time for several reasons, thats just the way it is, but Maxtor's seem to be much more sensitive than the other brands and have been consistently inferior to other brands through the years. IBM was getting pretty bad before they sold their storage divison...their Deskstar (Deathstars in the IT world) line was utter crap.

I would stick with Western Digital, Seagate or even Samsung... all are reliable and in most cases come with a good warranty (5 years).

Internal or external doesnt really matter, but dont bother getting an external unless you have USB 2.0 on your computer. Also Internal drives are much cheaper. You can pick up a 250GB drive for around $80.

Answer 2

if space around your computer is not an issue then get an external one
Maxtor,Western Digital,Seagate are some good name brands and when the salesman asks you if you want the extended warranty it is usually a good idea to get it.

if space is an issue then get an internal one the store you buy it from will usually install it for you for free.(if they are reputable) so bring the box of the computer with you.


edit: oh a dell yeah best and safest would be an external.
name brand computers tend to design their hardware with different dimensions so only their hardware will fit in the box.

Answer 3

I must admit I don't know the Dell Dimension very well, but I do know that Dell tends to use a lot of proprietary (= expensive) hardware.

Will you be using the new harddisk to simply store files on (and not to install Windows), then I think your safest bet is to buy an external harddisk. Otherwise you don't really have much choice. :-)

Answer 4

It really doesn't make much difference, if you want an internal, or external hard drive. Here is a website, that you can take a look at.
http://www.priorityelectronics.com/

Answer 5

nicely, my answer would possibly no longer be the desirable. yet, i purchase them at Wal-Wort while they sparkling them out. occasion; I have been given a one hundred twenty GB Seagate by using fact on the time Wal-Wort offered up one hundred sixty GB Seagates and that they offered for the comparable fee. So, one hundred twenty GB had to bypass @ $50. i recognize what you finding for is up there, so, can no longer say you discover a competent deal. yet, Seagate been around for a lengthy time and that i've got not had a issue. nonetheless my final workstation build I went with inner Hitachi (s) and that i exploit one hundred sixty GB on those. the reason, i think, is while the force is extensive it take time to discover, so, smaller is speedier, and once I end identifying to purchase i ought to have 6 hard Drives with 4 GB RAM using RAID and twin Boots to play, yet, that my opinion and it in all probability un-observed besides.