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    recommend an eSATA or FireWire external HDD or caddy+drive combo

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by roosta, Jan 4, 2009.

  1. roosta

    roosta Notebook Evangelist

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    can someone please recommend a good high speed and reliable external hard drive that uses eSATA or FireWire please? about 250-500GB. or a good external caddy and a high speed HDD to go in it.

    il leave the budget out of it for the moment until i get a clearer idea of how much these cost for a good quality one.

    mostly going to be storing films, music, games, backups etc.

    alternatively, would it be worth installing games on an 32gb SDHC card? would it read faster than a hard drive?

    +rep availible for good help :p

    cheers guys.
     
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    1tb fantoms with esata go for about 90 after rebate. and no sd cards are slow.
     
    nizzy1115, Jan 4, 2009
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  3. roosta

    roosta Notebook Evangelist

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    ok cheers. how do you get the rebate? i live in the UK so i dont know if il be elegible for it.
     
    roosta, Jan 4, 2009
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