External Backup Drive Recommendations

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Mexicorn

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So I've been trying to find a good external drive to do some backups of my work & home PCs. Nothing fancy, just USB 2.0 interface and 750GB-1TB or so.

This drive seems like a relatively good deal for a TB:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16822148373

though i'm at a loss as to what a good enclosure would be.

However this full seagate external drive is on sale currently:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148332

which would be cheaper than buying a drive + controller separately.

Now I assume getting a fully packaged external drive is frowned upon on these boards, but assuming this comes with the same type of seagate warranty, along with the fact that I will only have backups on this drive, seems to negate any downsides to buying the full package. Anyone have any other recommendations for this?
 
I like the Vantec enclosures on NewEgg for this. Think they're like $13 for the 2.5" and $35 for the 3.5". Reason I mention the 2.5" is that if you can get away with a smaller drive, say for just backing up a system partition only, geeks.com has refurb laptop drives for ch333p.

I like WD10EACS for 1TB storage drives.

And, I think that full package looks like a pretty good deal for what you want, as well.
 
I agree with Bing. Build your own and saves tons of cash. I will be going with a vantec enclosure for my next Ext. drive.
 
pug71 said:
I agree with Bing. Build your own and saves tons of cash. I will be going with a vantec enclosure for my next Ext. drive.
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But if I go with a seperate enclosure it will actually be MORE expensive!

$109.99 for HD + ~$29.99 for enclosure

or $126.99 for the seagate external HD

I'm leaning towards the seagate right now...
 
No eSATA port on the Seagate external...you're going to want one if your moving 1TB around IMHO.
 
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