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    Advice on 1TB external drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by stevoboy, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. stevoboy

    stevoboy Notebook Guru

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    Planning to buy and would like some comments. Diversity and personal opinion encouraged regarding brand, parameters, etc. Thanks.
     
    stevoboy, Apr 12, 2009
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just buy the cheapest if you're using it in an external usb/firewire enclosure. For internal or ESATA enclosures, buy hdd with the highiest platter areal density. E.g. Samsung F1 with 333GB/platter or some seagate ones with 500GB/platter.
     
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    stevezachtech Notebook Evangelist

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    I find external drives to be dangerous since you can't use a deep freeze utility or some kind of anti virus or firewall program to avoid the dangerous malwares that infect most external storage devices... But if you really like to get one, there are available external drives that can be assembled in which you can choose what its capacity would be with a cheap price.
     
    stevezachtech, Apr 15, 2009
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