Suggestions for External USB Hard Drive for Backups

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

Purchase a regular EIDE hard drive and a hard drive enclosure. Connect
this through USB to the computer. This is much cheaper than buying an
external hard drive from any of the vendors.

I have had great success with WD drives. I recently put together a 320GB
EIDE WD Caviar drive in a Kingwin external drive enclosure. The drive, as
a white box, was less than $90 at Newegg.com and the enclosure was just
over $20. That WD drive is very popular. You can't beat that price
compared to a manufactured external drive.

There's a benefit in some cases to buying an internal drive and enclosure
rather than a ready-built external drive - the warranty on a retail internal
drive is likely to be longer than on an external drive.

 

[Rock]

You're welcome
--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Allan and Rock, thank you very much for the info.
Walt

 

[Rock]

There's a benefit in some cases to buying an internal drive and enclosure
rather than a ready-built external drive - the warranty on a retail
internal drive is likely to be longer than on an external drive.

I'm not I understand what you are saying here. What is the difference
between an internal drive and enclosure, and an external drive and
enclosure? I've never heard of an internal drive and enclosure.

 

[allanc]

I just ordered the new Seagate FreeAgent 500 Gb.
It is an external drive.
Seagate has increased their warranty (on these models) to 5 years .

 

[Rock]

There's a benefit in some cases to buying an internal drive and enclosure
rather than a ready-built external drive - the warranty on a retail
internal drive is likely to be longer than on an external drive.

Disregard my post to you, I reread yours and it's clear...not sure what I
was seeing the first time.

 

[Rock]

I just ordered the new Seagate FreeAgent 500 Gb.
It is an external drive.
Seagate has increased their warranty (on these models) to 5 years .

But the cost is so much more for a manufactured external drive. Anyway good
luck.

 

[Pete Stavrakoglou]

Disregard my post to you, I reread yours and it's clear...not sure what I
was seeing the first time.

LOL! I replied to your other post before reading this one.