Comstar external HDD?

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milkweg

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Does Comstar make reliable hardware? I see they have a 1TB external HDD that I want to buy but I am not familiar with that company at all. Have any opinions of them?
 
Neither have I. It is likely a Hitachi / WD drive in a generic enclosure. Unless its a sweet deal, or a good bargain, I would stick to buying an internal drive, and slapping that in an external case. External drives have only a year warranty and you can get 3 years on an internal that you make external. :D
 
I already went and bought it so it is a done deal. Here's what I have found out about it so far. It can't be a generic enclosure because it is using two Hitachi 500GB SATAII Dekstars that are seen as one HDD by the OS. Must be using two HDD's because the model of HDD it has only comes in 500GB and not 1TB. At NCIX it is $330.00 CAD for 1TB Hitachi (has $30.00 off rebate that you must mail in so is really $360.00). Then you have to buy an external enclosure for it too. I got the enclosure (has rear fan) and 1TB of HDD space for $269.99 CAD. Which would you buy? If the HDD's ever fail I will just take out them out of the enclosure and use the serial numbers on them to get the three year warranty. Ding! Ding!
 
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