Jude 2

I really really really want an external hard drive for pics and videos. I really want it and NEED it!

Any suggestions?

Cheap and big. Big and Cheap.

Cats, there are two ways to do this.

Buy an external harddrive ready to go.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... DT&cat=HDD

or

Purchase an external HD case (usb or firewire or both)


http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... BK&cat=HDD


Super fancey case

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... 8S&cat=HDD

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purchase an internal hard drive.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId ... &cpc=RECOM



Since I work on computers a lot a friend gave me one of these.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId ... &cpc=RECOM

no case just connect to internal HD and go.. Way kewl.

What about a Mybook?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mybook

I got a small one a year or so back and had it up and going in less than a minute!

A TERABYTE!! for 164$!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been in computers long enough to know you used to have to mortgage your house to get that much HD space.

Gerald Creasy wrote:What about a Mybook?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mybook

I got a small one a year or so back and had it up and going in less than a minute!

A TERABYTE!! for 164$!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been in computers long enough to know you used to have to mortgage your house to get that much HD space.

Thats a great deal. Especially if its new.

I can remember those high prices also. 200-300 for a 20 meg Hard drive..

Also Memory. I remember putting in our annual IT budget $55 per meg for memory. We had a server with 256 meg of ramt that cost like $50,000 and it was a PI... lol

Cats,

Not sure what you're doing with this - but want to make
certain you're aware there are external hard drives &
PORTABLE external hard drives. If you want something
to lug around with your laptop - or switch back & forth
between a laptop & a desktop - make sure you get one
that says it's portable.

The non-portable drives are usually cheaper -
but they're not really designed to be moved around a lot -
so they work great if you're going to park it beside
your desktop.

I got a Western Digital a year or so ago on sale at
Best Buy & it has worked wonderfully. I keep it stashed
in my laptop bag. If you watch - they run them on sale
at Best Buy every couple weeks. I've seen several sales
online as of late as well. Prices seem to be steadily
declining on these.

do you have multiple computers? a network? perhaps a Network Attached storage (NAS) solution would work? they are getting very inexpensive, not much more than an external usb/firewire device.

RamboPreacher wrote:do you have multiple computers? a network? perhaps a Network Attached storage (NAS) solution would work? they are getting very inexpensive, not much more than an external usb/firewire device.

I agree here also. If you have a home network you can also take an old computer and put an internal Hard drive in it and use it as a Network storage. It does not take a computer with a lot of horsepower to do this.

I have a PIII 800 Gateway that I use. It has a 250 gig HD that I backup my other computers documents to.

and on a side note.
IF you are wanting portable. You may want to go with a 2.5 external drive. I have one of those also. Takes the hard drives for laptops and makes external. Fits in my shirt pocket.