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portable storage solution

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Ckamc

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thinking about buying another notebook drive and making my own external hdd setup for mainly portable use. My last drive died after less than a year. Should i look at saving my money and just building a solid state or just invest in a better enclosure for a standard hdd?

Mainly want to carry a few HD movies and some tv shows and docs. Not ment for backing up large chunks of data.

Leaning on the standard hdd due to cost, however everyones thoughts would be great.
 
You probably just had a bad drive. That happens to all manufacturers.

For externals I recommend buying the case separately. This way you can get a full warranty on the drive and also if the enclosure goes bad (these do at a higher rate than drives) you will not void your hard drive warranty by removing the drive from the bad enclosure..
 
I actually am quite lazy and do not want to bother with having to do something like that, but then again the drive I had in an enclosure last time was the one out of my ps3 and the enclosure I have for it had little to no protection in terms of vibration.

I have argued with IRC about one thing tho, most "good" enclosures are still USB 2.0 and thus bottleneck SSD.

USB 3.0 isnt going to make mass market for another few years

$115 320GB 7200rpm HDD vs a $239 120GB SSD
 
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