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    External hardrive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Awesome laptops, Apr 1, 2007.

  1. Awesome laptops

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    The laptop i want to get has only a 100gb hard drive so i want to know what the best 400gb external hard drive is and how much it costs
     
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    The best external drive would be a Samsung 500GB (don;t know why you want a 400gb)
    It sells around £90 ($170)
     
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    why whats wrong with seagate 500gb 16mb cache. how much cache does the samsung have
     
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    It has the highest transfer rate, the lowest price, the least noise and it has 16MB.
     
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    Currently, I'd recommend a Seagate 7200.10 drive. They're fast, incredibly quiet, and come with a 5 year warranty. While the Samsungs are ok, they have a different kind of noise to them that I find incredibly distracting.
     
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    I have had issues with seagate externals as have several other I know. I love thier internal drives but ...
    anyway

    I like WDs

    Here is another thread on this.
     
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    Are you referring to the actual Seagate extenal drives (i.e. the huge enclosures that are branded by Seagate) or drive inclosures that have Seagate drives sitting inside them? In my case, I was assuming the OP would just grab any random enclosure and then toss in a drive of their choice.

    To the OP: if you have the money and if it meets your needs, Vantec has a nice networked storage enclosure that you can toss a drive into. Once the enclosure has a drive in it, you can plug it into your router at home and have a cheap little NAS. They're really slick!
     
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    The big honkin seagate externals which is why I said seagate externals :rolleyes:

    An internal seagate with a vantec or bytecc enclosure is ideal, however I dont think they justify the diff in cost nowadays. On a budget I prefer WD externals.
     
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    I guess where I'm looking it's usually cheaper to 'do it yourself'. As for my earlier question, I was asking if the enclosure itself was the problem, or if the drives that seagate put in them died. Sorry for the lack of clarity there.
     
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    Go with a WD external My Book.
     
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    Oh, the drives died. I am a seagate fan but not of thier external drives ...

    When using an enclosure I usually spend more on the drive than what comes in an oem external. Much better product for more money. You could probably duplicate the quality of the oems cheaper.
     
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    Duplicate post
     
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    Duplicate post.
     
    DamienThorn, Apr 2, 2007
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