47: need etrenal drive
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flawless22
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Western Digital brand is quite fast.
OG buckshot jr
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Is you want USB 3.0 Seagate's bomb.
dead mike
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There are two hard drive sizes 3.5 and 2.5inch, 3.5 inch are standard drives, they generally need power in addition to the usb connection, I also do not consider them very portable. Buying a 2TB drive will get you the best deal today, ie spend $50 for 1TB drive or $70 for 2TB. An external enclosure is about $25, consider getting one with eSata.
2.5 inch are the laptop drive sizes, more expensive per gig but truly portable imo, and can run off the power supplied through the usb connection. You can scope the prices, but you can get an enclosure for 9.99.
Even the slowest drives today will easily max out your usb and likely eSata connections, 5400rpm is perfectly fine imo for storage purposes.
I have a few externals, I mainly just use them to have an extra backup of important files away from my computer, you never know when flood etc is going to happen. If speed really is an issue you maybe need to get a USB 3.0 card, or if its not perhaps consider grabbing something like NAS device, check out DNS-320, pretty useful hardware imo.
2.5 inch are the laptop drive sizes, more expensive per gig but truly portable imo, and can run off the power supplied through the usb connection. You can scope the prices, but you can get an enclosure for 9.99.
Even the slowest drives today will easily max out your usb and likely eSata connections, 5400rpm is perfectly fine imo for storage purposes.
I have a few externals, I mainly just use them to have an extra backup of important files away from my computer, you never know when flood etc is going to happen. If speed really is an issue you maybe need to get a USB 3.0 card, or if its not perhaps consider grabbing something like NAS device, check out DNS-320, pretty useful hardware imo.
dead mike
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Here's a deal man, I'd probably just put this inside your computer for storage, it shuts itself down when not in use and I am thinking you still have enough SATA ports left on your computer, these drives work great for music, video, picture, download storage:
Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB SATA 6GB/S 3.5IN 12MS 5900RPM 64MB Hard Drive OEM *3YR MFR Warranty* $57.99
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=57131&vpn=ST2000DL003&manufacture=Seagate
Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB SATA 6GB/S 3.5IN 12MS 5900RPM 64MB Hard Drive OEM *3YR MFR Warranty* $57.99
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=57131&vpn=ST2000DL003&manufacture=Seagate
OG buckshot jr
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http://ca.startech.com/product/ESATAPLATE1-1-ft-eSATA-Data-Internal-to-External-Slot-Plate
Just get one of these.
Just get one of these.
dead mike
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a weak thing about esata i noticed, maybe its different on your mobo, at least on my old shit mobo, you cannot "hotswap" an esata drive, you have to connect and reboot for it to be recognized.
serious best thing to do is have an internal storage drive, pick up a tiny portable usb drive, the big 3.5inch ones the more i think about it are worthless due to being the weight of a brick.
serious best thing to do is have an internal storage drive, pick up a tiny portable usb drive, the big 3.5inch ones the more i think about it are worthless due to being the weight of a brick.