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    Western Digital 400 GB?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sbyer, May 25, 2007.

  1. sbyer

    sbyer Notebook Guru

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    I've been looking to store all my files on something to back them up, and i recently went to staples and found that they are selling a 400 GB western digital desktop external hard drive, and i'm wondering if their asking price of $130 is too much, or i could get a better deal than that.

    To me, it seems like it's a pretty reasonable price. I use an 80 GB hard drive on my computer right now, and i'd like to move all of my other files to an external so that i could load up my 80 GB internal with my games.

    So is it a pretty good deal? Is western digital any good (i've heard it's pretty good)? And are there better ones out there (Possibly a seagate)?
     
    sbyer, May 25, 2007
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  2. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    I purchased the dual interface (Firewire/USB) 500GB WD Hard Drive for $200 earlier this year.
     
    Gautam, May 25, 2007
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  3. TedJ

    TedJ Asus fan in a can!

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    I recently purchased the WD My Book Premium 500GB to store my ever expanding collection of donkey porn^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D assorted video files and am very happy with it.
     
    TedJ, May 28, 2007
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  4. SideSwipe

    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    Apparently BestBuy has a 750GB drive for $200?
     
    SideSwipe, May 28, 2007
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