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Best storage for Dell Inspiron 6000?

by lesdhutch Sep 25, 2005 2:36AM PDT

Any ideas on the best storage for my Dell laptop? I'm looking at various external hard drives, 80-160GB range, also wondering if it's possible/feasible to hook up an internal HD (since they're cheaper).
Is there a huge difference between Western Digital, Maxtor and other popular units usually found at Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.?
Tks for informed opinions...
L.H.

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(NT) (NT) You would need a notebook hard drive

by damasta55r Sep 25, 2005 3:29AM PDT

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external HD

by linkit Sep 25, 2005 2:40PM PDT

Desktop internal hard drives (3.5 inch) may be installed in an external hard drive enclosure, but you won't get the bundled utility software that will come with a retail packaged external hard drive.

Western Digital and Maxtor are fine brands.

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