External Hard Drive

[LiNuX]

anybody here have an external hard drive? because i may need one in the near future, im running out of space on this 200 gig hard drive lol, lotta stuff on it, i need recommendations on which one is good, cuz i dont wanna go out and buy just any external hard drive, never bought that part of the computer in my life lol, everything else i did :D

[Thor Erik]

i'd recomend a internal ;) but if you do not have space inside you can always look for a Maxtor external :P or you can just buy a internal and a external case :P

the Maxtor's are really good(they can take alot of dammage xP i droped one 5 storries, it still works as a charm ^^)
sizes i'd go for a 250 -> 400 gig (500 is so expensive yet :P)

[LiNuX]

i need an external one cuz my internal is almost out of space lol, i need an external hard drive to save most of my current information and then clear up my internal drive and start again lol, if i could get a 250 gig, im good, cuz i have 200 gig in this one, and 60 on my laptop ;D i have 20 gigs left on this one and 5 on laptop lol ;D

[aosmallan]

do you not have space for another HD in your case?

[LiNuX]

lol, i think so, i havent opened up my cpu in a long long time, i dont know what else is in there, i have hard drives in there tho lol, C drive and D drive, that one is about 40 gigs, it has my recovery files, i dont want to add other stuff in it, only the most important files go in there, and i still need more space :D

[Thor Erik]

opening the case will not make you loose the files xD an internal hdd will appear as a external would ;)

[LiNuX]

lol i know it wouldnt delete the files lol, i've opened it before to add more memory and new video cards lol, and i know what the hard drives look like, i just never bought one and didnt know which brand or company would be good :D

[Thor Erik]

i recomend a Maxtor Internal their cheaper ;)

[sign89]

Maxtor is cheaper, I have 6 external hardrives.

Too much infor goes on in my computer.

[TheKing]

well um once at costco i seen a 500 gb external hard drive , i think that would be just perfect for you liNux

[Thor Erik]

well um once at costco i seen a 500 gb external hard drive , i think that would be just perfect for you liNux
atm it's cheaper to buy 2 250 gb instead of 1 500 gb...

[Haloer2006]

buy a 2TB internal.. way better!

[LiNuX]

if you could show me a 2 tb internal one, i would look into it, then i can turn my harddrive into a webhost lol, i just need some better internet, it could work ;D

[Thor Erik]

dnt got for any 2tb hdd's their way more expensive than buying 4 500gb xS

[Haloer2006]

really?
But its not external its internal.. and its prob just 4 500GB

[Thor Erik]

really?
But its not external its internal.. and its prob just 4 500GB
guess so, the largest i've heard of is 750 gb (allthough there are som 4.5" (regular= 3.5") that can take 40-50tb xD their too large for a regular pc user)

[Haloer2006]

yeah but this is the ub3r large XPS power house..

[Thor Erik]

xps sux, dell sux :P
regular pc cases are not wide enugh for the 4.5" hdd's, 4.5 is made for rac servers witch are max 23 cm high, but their as mutch as 45-60 cm wide =)

[Haloer2006]

well i dont know i like it.. but i dont know.. i might get a voodoo or a custom..

[Thor Erik]

well i dont know i like it.. but i dont know.. i might get a voodoo or a custom..
costum is best ;) you can get the latest stuff, also most pc's today are build in steel cases, if youre smart when making a costum buy alu/titanium case ;) they are stronger and lighter, the alu cases are some times cheaper than the same steel =) next time i'm going to build costum i will get me a titanium case =) costum made ofcorse :P

[Haloer2006]

thats cool.. i want mine wisper quite so my parents cant hear me.. playing..
^_^

[Thor Erik]

ofcorse mine will be quiet =D i will get a big fan-set from Zalman, it got 8 ultra quiet + one ultra quiet 800W(regular are @ 350W) power house :P else if i got the cash i will get a costum-made cooling system, a friend makes sutch, he holds the WR on coolest cooler :P it made -340 C on a P4 4 GhZ on full load xD that's cool ^^

[Haloer2006]

i want water cooled.. its super quiet.. no noise.. totaly silent!!

[Thor Erik]

i want water cooled.. its super quiet.. no noise.. totaly silent!!
my friend uses propaine i think <.< the compo did't allow hydrogen :P

[Haloer2006]

lol liquid hydro would freeze your comp..

[Thor Erik]

nope, the cpu/gpu is too hot :P

[Haloer2006]

o_o...
thats cool...
haha cool...JK..

But yeah if i had it i would be sooooo happy.. i could do 3dimaging.. and 3dRenders.. and stuff like that!!

[aosmallan]

i'd recomend a internal ;) but if you do not have space inside you can always look for a Maxtor external :P or you can just buy a internal and a external case :P

the Maxtor's are really good(they can take alot of dammage xP i droped one 5 storries, it still works as a charm ^^)
sizes i'd go for a 250 -> 400 gig (500 is so expensive yet :P)

Maxtors get some real ****ty reviews though lol

I mean some companies rate it decently high, but some of the bad reviews are kinda scary...

For example:

"I bought this 6 months ago and used it maybe three times. I used the drive to store Photoshop images to make room on my Mac. Yesterday I went to get my images and the found the drive had only a blinking blue light. I talked to Maxtor and was told ... Read more >it had crashed , they will send me a new one but the only option to get my images was to pay $500-$1,000 for data recovery. "

And there were a few other similar stories of Maxtors crashing without the ability to regain the lost files.