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need good external HD
- Thread starter teck9
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I've found the best deal is to buy an external enclosure and an OEM hard drive.
Using www.bensbargains.net you can usually find external enclosures for around $30 and then find a good rebate deal on a hard drive for about $0.50/GB.
All the drive enclosures are about the same, just make sure you have a supported interface (USB or Firewire) and that the enclosure you'll get can support the amount of storage on your new hard drive.
Usually when you buy a retail external hard drive from a name brand such as WD or Maxtor, you're going to be paying a jacked up rate.
Using www.bensbargains.net you can usually find external enclosures for around $30 and then find a good rebate deal on a hard drive for about $0.50/GB.
All the drive enclosures are about the same, just make sure you have a supported interface (USB or Firewire) and that the enclosure you'll get can support the amount of storage on your new hard drive.
Usually when you buy a retail external hard drive from a name brand such as WD or Maxtor, you're going to be paying a jacked up rate.
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Heh.
Nothing beats being able to drag your hard drives around and just plug them in to any computer.
Nothing beats being able to drag your hard drives around and just plug them in to any computer.
One advice: when you get a HD, get one with 8MB buffer, it provides great performance advantage over 2MB versions when you are organizing within the USB HD, see test results here:
http://www.nuassembly.com/USBHD/HardfactsUSB20.htm
http://www.nuassembly.com/USBHD/HardfactsUSB20.htm
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on a related topic, are there any issues with putting cd/dvd+-rw's in enclosures? I'm thinking about this, and don't wanna waste $35-50. I need usb2 and fw, so it'll be fairly expensive but not as bad as another 811s. thanks.
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The enclosures typically work with optical drives (just check the specifications first).