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Looking for the right external hard drive and kinda lost

by muzicat Sep 6, 2007 1:00PM PDT

Hi!

I'm relatively new to the whole external hard drive storage thing...and could really use some advice about purchasing my first one. I'm not exactly an expert on computers...so feel free to give me any advice you feel would help!

I'm looking for at least a 100GB external hard drive and no bigger than 200GB for under or around $100. I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 running Vista Home Premium notebook and would use my external drive mostly for backups and storage of my photos and files. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking of the Western Digital Passport drive, but it's only 80GB.

Thanks, and I'd really appreciate any advice you may have!


~Montana

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"use for backup and storage of photos and files"
by Kees Bakker Sep 7, 2007 4:17AM PDT

I hope you realise that you should have a backup of these particular 'photo's and files' your store on this external hard drive (and not on your internal hard drive) on yet another medium. Having data (whatever data) only on one place is asking to lose it.

Kees

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by muzicat Sep 7, 2007 4:56AM PDT

Yeah, I totally understand that. The only reason why I'm opting for some external storage is because I have so many photos and files that it would take up lots of dvds/cds. I'd have my files on my computer, on some cds, and on the storage device. My backups are also too large to fit on DVDs...sooo I need another drive.

Do you have any suggestions for possible storage devices that would suit well for what I need?

~M

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Only 80GB? it must be a 2.5" job.
by ahtoi Sep 7, 2007 5:54AM PDT

If you do your backup at home then you can get an external 3.5" for that price..easily (but no suggestion from me though). A 320GB maxtor for $70 and the case for $20-30.

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Thanks!
by muzicat Sep 7, 2007 11:02AM PDT

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm gonna check that one out and see if it can also handle backups. The price seems great for a drive so large!

Thanks again for the advice!

~M

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Hold on a second...
by whizkid454 Sep 8, 2007 7:11AM PDT

I've seen many complaints about Maxtor drives. Try to stick with Seagate or WD.

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