Hi, I am looking to buy an external hard drive- about 500gb capacity. I have heard many brand names out there such as Iomega, Freecom, Western Digital. Are there any out there that are reliable and quite. Thanks.
2007-04-15 19:16:48 · 10 answers · asked by zabeonline 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I have been a Western Digital and Seagate fan for a while now. Both are quiet and reliable.
2007-04-15 19:19:44 · answer #1 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've been looking at the pre-built external hard drives recently as they have just gotten as cheap as putting your own together (really easy).
What I noticed is that they all seem to have 1-year warrantees. And as I have been looking through Yahoo Answers, I notice a few people have been having problems with their external drives.
I have put together quite a few external hard drives. (I'd say "built" but it was too simple a job to qualify as that.) I have been getting Seagate HD's because of their 5-year warrantees. That's what I use. They're comparably-priced to the others but they have had much longer warrantees for a while.
As far as enclosures, I have gotten both the 5.25" and 3.5". They are to be had for $20 to $30. I like the 5.25"s because I can swap it out with a DVD-burner if I want. Plus, there's more space for the heat to circulate (hopefully to the outside with the fan). And, there's a good chance the power adapter is built-in so you don't have to haul around an adapter and extra cord. The 3.5"s are good for being compact.
So, put one together yourself. It takes about 5-minutes. You do have to format it yourself, but that just takes time and it's unattended time so you could be doing something else.
One last thought: Make sure to check to see the external enclosure will take the size hard drive you're planning to get.
2007-04-15 20:08:54 · answer #2 · answered by ehhop 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
An external harddirve is the same hd that you get in your laptop or pc. It's just in a casing. You get the small ones that looks like a passport that you don't need a power supply for, just the usb cable. Then you get the normal ones that are just the hd built into a casing. THe 1st one is more expensive though. You can use it just like you use a normal flash drive. You can partition it or not. You get the 1.8"(laptop) and the 3.5"(desktop) hd. Hope this helped a bit. I'm not a fundie, but worked at an IT co for a while.
2016-05-21 01:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by lara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tend to stay torward the name brands as the ones you have mentioned. Usually, I will buy a seagate drive and buy an enclosure. Any can be unreliable though. It is luck of the draw.
2007-04-15 19:32:26 · answer #4 · answered by TL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two that I prefer are Western Digital and Seagate.
2007-04-15 19:20:03 · answer #5 · answered by brendan_erofeev 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just about anything from www.newegg.com is very reliable and most external HDDs are very quiet
2007-04-15 19:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
jus buy a hard drive enclosure kit and make any internal hard drive externel.
2007-04-15 19:36:25 · answer #7 · answered by Saleen VS Corvette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
freecom
2007-04-16 06:13:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had some great prices at MegaMacs.com . (For all pcs, not just iMacs)
2007-04-15 19:31:51 · answer #9 · answered by gmoney 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all drive you mentioned are good HD..
JUST DON'T DROP your HD...
2007-04-15 19:48:15 · answer #10 · answered by OLD Astro Creep 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋