I want to buy a new external hard drive , around 350 to 500 GB , but i don't know what is the best hard drive !!
cause i have lots of movies and i want them to be save in a hard drive for ever ! is it possible ? or i can lose data ?
2006-12-02 02:59:01 · 9 answers · asked by KSAGirl 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I just received my copy of the January issue of PC World Magazine and it has a review article on external hard drives, the article's title is "The Wide World of External Drives." Its a great article reviewing 10 top notched drives divided in to 2 catagories, portable and desktop external hard drive. You are probably best off with a desktop external hard drive since you just want to backup your movies. The more compact and portable a drive is the most expensive it becomes. Personally, my preference is for Western Digital and Maxtor. I have both products and they are extremely reliable. Please read the article for all the reviews:
"The Wide World of External Drives: Today's options provide impressive combinations of speed, interfaces, features, and software." -- written by Narasu Rebbapragada (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127545/article.html#)
It is a shame that Black Friday has come and gone. The day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday" and it is the number one shopping day of the year. Stores slash prices hoping to attract customers. Best Buy was selling a Western Digital 250GB external hard drive for $59.99 (no rebates). If you can hold off buying the hard drive until Christmas, you can save a lot of money because stores like Best Buy or Circuit City will have holiday specials on computers and accessories.
2006-12-02 03:14:36 · answer #1 · answered by What the...?!? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can setup what is called a RAID (two or more hard drives with redundant data, see below) this will protect your data if one of the drives goes bad. But your best bet is to have an internal AND external HD. That way you have two places where your data is located. If a virus or worm rips up all your data, you still have the external HD's data. (Make sure you keep it turned of or disconnected from your pc unless you are backing up data to it!)
2006-12-02 03:05:11 · answer #2 · answered by arcaemous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings!
I would not buy such a large hard drive. Instead put the movies on to discs. That way in a loss you lose one movie not a collection.
Also it would be much cheaper. There are inexpensive dvd external burners that you could use.
Good Luck
2006-12-02 03:03:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-30 01:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by huehn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go for big capacity HD...
With the ability to use RAID (Mirroring). This means if one of the HD is dead, the data is still on the other HD....
I have a maxtor OneTouch disc (250Gb). It works pretty well. It connects to the pc with usb or FireWire. That's a good choice.
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2006-12-02 03:12:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry people but i think the maxtor external hard drives suck. if you want the best buy the western digital my books they are affordable and last along time, like all externals make sure you turn off when not in use
2006-12-02 03:39:51 · answer #6 · answered by gypsyman619 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go Computer Shop and see HD and select on it.
2006-12-02 03:06:50 · answer #7 · answered by guidemeanyone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anyone will work just make sure you have a highspeed port like USB2.0 or firewire for fast transfer
2006-12-02 03:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by zippo091 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go for a hitachi one 500GB
2006-12-02 03:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by Ninad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋