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Title: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: Nitroboy on August 04, 2007, 11:00:43 AM
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7783552&productCategoryId=pcmcat107700050005&type=product&cmp=++&id=1142290230595

I plan to format my hardrive on my laptop, so I was thinking of getting this so I could put all my useful stuff on there. Is it worth the money?
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: KiLo on August 04, 2007, 01:36:16 PM
Like I told you before just get that one. I promise it is worth the money.
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: y00tz on August 04, 2007, 02:14:46 PM
It looks good for the price
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: KiLo on August 04, 2007, 02:24:06 PM
Quote from: y00tz on August 04, 2007, 02:14:46 PM
It looks good for the price

It is. I have the same one.
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: Apocalypse on August 04, 2007, 03:06:23 PM
Quote from: y00tz on August 04, 2007, 02:14:46 PM
It looks good for the pric
Yeah it does.
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: jitspoe on August 06, 2007, 09:22:41 PM
Be careful with external drives.  We use them a lot at work and they fail on a regular basis, regardless of the company that manufactures them.  If you're just using it to store things temporarily while you reformat another drive, it should be ok, but I wouldn't rely on it for a long period of time.  Might make for a good backup drive, though, in case your primary drive fails, or for downloading/installing large amounts of data that you don't really care if you lose.
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: KiLo on August 06, 2007, 09:36:18 PM
After reading jits' post: /me plugs in his external hard drive and copies 20 GB of movies back to his laptop.
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: Nitroboy on August 08, 2007, 12:55:56 PM
Quote from: jitspoe on August 06, 2007, 09:22:41 PM
Be careful with external drives.  We use them a lot at work and they fail on a regular basis, regardless of the company that manufactures them.  If you're just using it to store things temporarily while you reformat another drive, it should be ok, but I wouldn't rely on it for a long period of time.  Might make for a good backup drive, though, in case your primary drive fails, or for downloading/installing large amounts of data that you don't really care if you lose.

hmm. I think I will get more memory, then format my hardrive. I was planning on having my laptop free of almost everything, and just put everything on the external, but im not to sure of that now. Were you using 1 or 2 TB externals? cause I dont know if a 500 GB is going to fail on me. I hope it doesnt.
Title: Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
Post by: jitspoe on August 08, 2007, 07:26:18 PM
I want to say most of the failures we had were with ~300GB drives.  It's hit or miss with hard drives -- internal or external -- you might get lucky, but it's really important to make backups of the things you want to keep.