depends what you're trying to do? |
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I am looking for really cheap hard drives and flash drives that can hold a lot which are of decent quality (won't break/lose my data/etc.) |
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Last edited by wasup; 04-26-2008 at 05:55 PM.
depends what you're trying to do? |
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Generally for both everyday use and backups as well. I can't really afford to get more than one large drive though. I think for me, my two drives (my main computer one and the external one I'd buy) would be enough for "redundancy." One either one fails I would either get another one or fix it. Also, I might consider just getting an enclosure and an internal hard drive for a cheaper price and putting them together instead of buying a prebuilt external which is more expensive. |
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Last edited by wasup; 04-26-2008 at 06:05 PM.
external hard drives are a con |
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Searching on newegg, I found an 8 GB flash drive for 26 dollars + shipping. I read that it probably wouldn't be able to handle abuse, but I could deal with that considering the great price. I am probably going to go with that one unless I can find a better deal. |
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Whether you pack it yourself or buy it premade, I would go for the bigger external. When I got mine maybe two years ago, more than quadrupling my storage capacity, I immediately started filling it with videos, pics and music at an accelerated rate, and now have to weed my files pretty regularly to maintain any space (my internal drive is almost entirely programs). |
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I'm not an expert in external hard drives but I would assume the 500GB drives to be 2x250GB platters in the best case, but more likely 3x166GB. Considering that mainstream internal drives are out with 320 and 334 Gig designs, you might look out for one of those in external format since they offer much greater performance and 320GB seems to be a reasonably sized disk for you needs. Or just buy one of those and stick it in some sort of box. For 320GB I would recommend a Samsung F1 and for 640GB the Western Digital one is the overall winner. These drives offer greater performance than any 500 or 750. Both affordable and silent. |
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Last edited by Serkat; 04-28-2008 at 08:47 PM.
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