http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/West...49941/catOid/-12976/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
If yes, is it a good deal?
If yes, is it a good deal?
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Tech-heads: Is this a good external harddrive?
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perryfarrell
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It's a well-known product from a mainstream brand, and it's probably fine. Seagate is sometimes considered to be better than Western Digital, but I'm not sure how much evidence there really is for that.
Beezy said:
It is a brand I trust. WD and Seagate are both the top of the class for HDDs, and thats a very good price. Stats wise its also a solid piece of equipment. Obviously, you'll want to still keep physical media(CD) copies of anything of vital importance, but you should have no problems with it.
The 15 dollar warranty is also not a bad idea, but I'm partial to warranties.
I've never had a WD Drive itself die on me, although the USB enclosure for one of the pocket drives messed up due to a screw up on my part.
Beezy said:
No, WD offers good drives; you should avoid the Hitachi Deathstar in the future though.
I managed to find the drive for a couple of bucks cheaper at Newegg. If you wanna pay even less I'm sure you can buy a cheap external HDD usb enclosure and a 3.5" internal HDD.
darkressurection
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I have a WD internal drive that runs perfect, so anything external from them should do well too.
Diatribe1974
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I've got nothing but love for my Western Digital HDD's. Used to have alot of succes with Maxtor in the past, but their quality went to sh!t the last 10 years or so.
Tyrannical
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Killthee said:
It not being 2003 anymore, I think you can delete the hitachi deathstar from your memory.
MaddenNFL64
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Anyone here get the Lacie Porsche 500gig drive? It's just so cheap right now, I had to get one.
BTW, I got mine for $118 at Amazon. I bought it from Tech Depot (A subsidiary of Office Depot).
BTW, I got mine for $118 at Amazon. I bought it from Tech Depot (A subsidiary of Office Depot).
SpoonyBard
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Man, that Western Digital one is ugly. Xbox ugly.
Tyrannical
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MaddenNFL64 said:
I bought one a few days ago. Looks nice, and still works so far
But I dunno about the WD one. It's just something about the product that makes me feel uncomfortable. I can't put my finger on it though.
Forgotten Ancient
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Lo-Volt said:
Exactly what I was thinking.
I have an 80gb WD external that's been going good for over 3 years now. I didn't even realize 500GB drives were so cheap. Maybe I'll bite.
I bought two 250 gig Lacie drives in the past. One firewire for the mac and one that is usb that I use on the PC. They are both still working great after one year. The one I use for the Mac gets more work as I use it to edit home videos.MaddenNFL64 said:
I noticed that my usb drive gets a little hot if left on for too long though. Mine never died, but it concerns me sometimes. The firewire drive usually never gets hot.
And can someone tell me why firewire drives are so much more expensive than usb?
MaddenNFL64
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bionic77 said:
They must have known it was an issue since the 500gig I bought comes with a built in fan for cooling purposes. It's USB 2.0 as well.
MassiveAttack
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Lo-Volt said:
:lol
EternalDarko
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I've got a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent. Awesome drive if you wanna go for that.
http://www.seagate.com/freeagent/
http://www.seagate.com/freeagent/
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