external hard drive help

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bigdmat

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I am looking into geting a external hard drive and need some help picking one out. I have the option of usb or esata and woiuld like atleast 1Tb. Is esata faster?
 
Yes eSATA is faster but USB is still more widespread. So make sure that the enclosure you're getting has both.

It's usually a better idea to get a separate enclosure and hard drive so that just in case that either one dies, you won't lose any warranty by opening the enclosure up for diagnosis.

HDD wise, I recommend these:
$60 - Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD103SI 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$75 - Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Enclosure wise, that's a bit more difficult but this enclosure seems like a decent deal for the capability to use two hard drives:
$44 - Thermaltake BlacX Duet USB2.0 & eSATA Dual Hard Drives Docking Station
 
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