Please recommend me a large extrenal disk drive...

[tbone]

that you have had experience with or know about. Big like 250 gigs. Price is somewhat of an issue, but reliability is the most improtant.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TexasOwnzYou]

most of the drives today come w/ 3 year warranties (the retail versions) so as long as you buy from one of the name brands (ie, WD, maxtor etc), u should be good.

 

[hullabelew]

I bought a WD 160 gig external/USB and had more hell than a drunk man on the wrong train. I thought it was just bad, so I exchanged it. Still the same problem. During backup, it would quit talking to the computer. I got on some forums and apparently WD had trouble when they got to the 160 gig size. I took it back and haven't replaced it yet. I am having too much fun now fighting with Dell and Bellsouth on another problem at this point.

 

[jcdenton]

BestBuy.com has the Maxtor OneTouch II 300.0GB External FireWire and USB 2.0 Hard Drive for $229.99 and shipping after a $70 rebate. Search "E01G300".

Or if you want to save money you can always buy your own external enclosure and put any hard drive you want in it.

 

[Clarence Iba]

Other World Computing has AWESOME deals on these. Google them. I just got a 250 GB from them dirt cheap.

 

[tbone]

Anyone know what woudl be wrong with this one?
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Simpletech 250GB 7200RPM USB2.0 External Hard Drive, Model STI-USB235/250, Retail

 

[MrPhlegm]

I've had good luck with Acomdata 250gb USB2.0/Firewire drive

I don't use any fancy backup software, I just copy what I want to save directly on the drive or just work using the drive.

I keep all of my MP3's on there.

I use the firewire because I have USB 1.1 and the firewire is faster and the firewire can be daisy chained which is nice. Also the firewire dosen't use up any of the CPU cycles so that helps the load on the system.

I run Windows ME

and have had no trouble with setting up the drives or using them and with the firewire the drive appears to be jsut as fast as the internal drives. Unpacked them, plugged them in, powered them up, booted the system, windows loaded the drivers and VOILAH! got a new drive, no problem even with nasty old WinME.

Got mine at Comp-usa. New egg carries them also but they are currently sold out.The Link

Oh and beware the "just get an enclosure and jam a drive in there and it works" cause it don't always work. So now I got a nice high capacity drive to stick in the next computer that I am going to build and an apparently useless enclosure. (it might be the ME that I am running, when I build my next computer I might try it out with XP media edition and see if that works.

 

[hollisdude]

I also rec the Seagate. I have a 200GB USB version. I think I paid $130 or something. Works flawlessly.

 

[Apostle7550]

I have 2 Maxtor Firewire One Touch drives... The One Touch II is badass! They're a little expensive, but they're worth it.