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[Recomend On] Need an External Hard Drive
The_Spaniard
It's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
It's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
I've reached the point I believe where 300gigs of internal disk space is not enough and I'd like to get a 500gig external drive to store all my movies, ipod music, game files that aren't in use, pictures, etc. I've never actually purchased an external HDD before so I'm not sure what I should get. The only though I have in mind is that I shouldn't go for one of those fanless ones if I'm going to be running it all the time since it will heat up and burn out without one.
So a couple of things to keep in mind, I'm looking at roughly 100 bucks as the budget, it needs to have a fan because I've been told fanless burn out if you use them continuously as I plan to, that is unless you can convince me otherwise. Tomorrow is Labor day so they should be some good deals, so if you know of any in store deals that I could run in and grab that would be great, otherwise I'm glad to just order one online and wait to save money.
Thanks a lot guys, and as always I appreciate whatever help and advice you can give.
So a couple of things to keep in mind, I'm looking at roughly 100 bucks as the budget, it needs to have a fan because I've been told fanless burn out if you use them continuously as I plan to, that is unless you can convince me otherwise. Tomorrow is Labor day so they should be some good deals, so if you know of any in store deals that I could run in and grab that would be great, otherwise I'm glad to just order one online and wait to save money.
Thanks a lot guys, and as always I appreciate whatever help and advice you can give.
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Buy, combine, attach, done.
The only real difference is if the drive is internal its less portable and also runs off your cases psu where as an external drive would have its own (unless its a 2.5" drive and caddy, these are usually powered off the usb as well).
I would recommend Lacie as well if you go external
You DO realize that an external HDD is just a regular HDD stuck into a proprietary enclosure right? Buying separately not only saves you money but ensures that the HDD is a quality one. What, you want some crappy generic one? Or do you want a Seagate Barracuda? And as for you last question, that's for you to answer. You want an external HDD, thats what this thread is about. If you want to make it internal, that's your business. Why does anyone want to have an external HDD? I don't give a shit what you do. I'm just here to help you with setting up a good EHDD because I do it regularly for work and myself.
I appreciate all the advice I'm just thinking out loud on a lot of this since I'm new to buying external HDDs. I've always built a PC with a single HDD and then if I wanted some memory to cart around I'd just buy a memory stick or a tumb drive. I don't plan on carting this HDD around, but I'd like something to offload all my crap onto so I can reserve my main HDD for game installs and apps. Would it be a decent idea at least to get that HDD and enclosure for now and then down the road if I feel like it slap it into the PC?
I just know that as long as I'm home that HDD is going to be running, sure I'll turn it off when I leave the house, but it's going to be running for extended lengths of time 5 days a week and then 48 hours straight through every weekend. So are you sure it will be ok without a fan, just to make sure.
I run my external drives without fans and I never turn them off, touch wood, never had a problem. In fact the only one that does have a fan is so annoying I am tempted to rip it out, the risk would be worth it for piece and quiet.
It will be fine, most definitely. I'd say have it be an internal. I have 5 internal SATA's and the x2 external 1.0TB drives i cart around home and work. Theres nothing wrong with having more than one internal, or external for that matter. Just make sure the EHDD enclosure(s) are(is) eSATA and not USB, cause USB is slower than stanard HDD data transmission. eSATA is much, much faster.
Given your uses, you'd probably do better just getting another internal drive.
But if you do decide on an external, I've had good luck with AMS VENUS enclosures. Big, aluminum, and with a fan. I had a laptop at the time, so I couldn't just add a second hard drive.
Yea. Unless you're popping in data constantly like me (200-300gb in a day and deleting it the next) then you'll be fine. Wait till you hit 40-50 then add an extra.
enclosure (or one of those fancy new HDD docks are cool)
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HDD
only benefit of premade ones are they sometimes come with decent backup software and look nice
Eh, nothing. Barracudas are awesome?
Because eSATA is far superior to Firewire for external hard drives, and odds are he'd need an extra add-in card for Firewire, whereas for eSATA you just need a cheap backplate connector (and for USB2.0 he'd need nothing).
He's looking for one hard drive, I don't think he cares about daisy-chaining devices. Honestly, Firewire isn't doing too well right now outside of high-end video cameras.
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And where could I get a good 500GB internal drive for 50 bucks?
No where, he wasn't reading your posts.
i dont know why you would need 500GB but heres a 500 for 70 bucks
i was thinking you would want an extra 250-320gb or so, i got the feeling you werent using space especially fast.
500GB SATA3 Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Buffer @ $54.99.