Hard Drive Suggestions

[Ilovebigcats]

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.

[Billy n NC]

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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And a

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.

[Gerald Creasy]

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.

[Billy n NC]

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

[Pianoman]

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.

[RamboPreacher]

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.

[Billy n NC]

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.