Removable Harddrive! (1 Viewer)

[P_Dilemma]

What's a good brand, type, size removable HD?

 

[sunny]

If you're talking about USB/Firewire type, and if you're up for it, its usually much cheaper to buy your own USB/Firewire case and a hard disk than to buy a retail packaged one

Otherwise, you can't really go wrong with bigger and reputable brands like Seagate. Type and size will be choices for you to suit your needs. Theres no point in us recommending a Firewire case with a 3.5" 80GB hard disk when you don't have a Firewire port on your computer, or 3.5" is too big for your liking, or 80GB is too small for your needs.

 

[P_Dilemma]

Seagate, huh? Whereabouts in Sydney do they sell their stuff?

-P_D

 

[Raginsheep]

Segate is a brand. They sell it all all good and possibily not good computer stores.

 

[fatmuscle]

word of warning:

ext USB hDD's are very unreliable.
the casing isn't unreliable
the hdd isn't unreliable
it's the USB technology with mass storage when it comes to ext hdd's that is unreliable.
I've had countless cases where the hdd's just fail to be detected.
i don't know how well firewire works or eSATA for that matter.

and for the HDD's - got with SATA drives. not IDE

on another story
when trying to fix my ext casing
one of the capacitors blew up about 1 foot away from my face

 

[Serius]

firewire i have been to be very relyable, but alot of computers dont have the port. Firewire also supports much higher speeds.