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Nitroboy

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Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« on: August 04, 2007, 09:00:43 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?

KiLo

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2007, 11:36:16 AM »
Like I told you before just get that one. I promise it is worth the money.

y00tz

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2007, 12:14:46 PM »
It looks good for the price

KiLo

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2007, 12:24:06 PM »
It looks good for the price

It is. I have the same one.

Apocalypse

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2007, 01:06:23 PM »
It looks good for the pric
Yeah it does.
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jitspoe

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2007, 07:22:41 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.

KiLo

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2007, 07:36:18 PM »
After reading jits' post:
* KiLo plugs in his external hard drive and copies 20 GB of movies back to his laptop.

Nitroboy

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2007, 10:55:56 AM »
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.

jitspoe

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Re: Thinking of getting this external hardrive:
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2007, 05:26:18 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.