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[Richiban]

I want to buy an Internal HDD and an External Caddy.

Can someone give me a spot of advice as to what sort of things I should be looking out for when I go shopping this weekend. Should I buy an IDE drive and shove it in the caddy?

Any help would be awesome, and would earn my undying heterosexual love. (unless you're a woman, at which point you would earn my burning hunk of love rod.)

 

[Crazymoogle]

I want to buy an Internal HDD and an External Caddy.

Can someone give me a spot of advice as to what sort of things I should be looking out for when I go shopping this weekend. Should I buy an IDE drive and shove it in the caddy?

Any help would be awesome, and would earn my undying heterosexual love. (unless you're a woman, at which point you would earn my burning hunk of love rod.)

Sounds like the 1 step plan to stop people from responding to this thread. Ignoring that...

-3.5" IDE drives are fine. 5400RPM will run cooler but 7200RPM will be faster.
-When you buy a caddy, try to get one made of aluminum instead of plastic for the shell. It deals with heat a lot better.
-Obviously you want something with USB 2.0. But if you have firewire support you might want to find a caddy that supports that too.
-Getting one with a fan in it depends on how often you use the drive. I have a 7200RPM, 200GB drive that can get really hot, but since I only use it for file backups every once in awhile, having a fan isn't really that important.

 

[Richiban]

Are you saying that you're afraid of my love rod?

For shame...

Anyways, thanks for the help. It's going to be used pretty regularly. The HDD I have now isn't big enough for my freelance video projects, and I'd like something that I can grab and take to work when I need to.

Thanks for the input.