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Public Forum => Pc Help/Tweak Page => Topic started by: crazydog on June 17, 2010, 10:40:35 PM

Title: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: crazydog on June 17, 2010, 10:40:35 PM

I want an external drive to use solely for backups.
I've found these two

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148405 - $80 after discounts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136280 - $50 after discounts (I already have an external enclosure)

Suggestions?

Title: Re: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: Mustard on June 18, 2010, 12:15:42 AM

I'm confused. The Seagate is the a regular sized drive, but the WD is a laptop drive. Do you want something tiny or do you want capacity?

Title: Re: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: crazydog on June 18, 2010, 12:21:49 AM

Well, the thing is I have an external enclosure for a laptop SATA drive, so it's essentially cheaper than buying an external regular sized drive + enclosure.

I don't like seagate so much, but $30 for that much more space enticed me, although I don't need that much.

Title: Re: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: Mustard on June 18, 2010, 12:23:29 AM

I have 2TB filled to the brim, this has taught me that you NEVER have enough space!

Title: Re: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: GeoDragon30 on June 18, 2010, 06:06:47 AM

your absolutely right Mustard, there is never enough space, I have 3tb drives full and a 500gb full as well. Guess it is time to buy a few 2 tb drives.

Title: Re: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: crazydog on June 18, 2010, 09:53:49 AM

The thing is I only need to backup my user files. My games and all the other shit that's filling my ~2.5TB of storage is all replaceable.

Anyway, I bought the laptop drive, but at midnight a slower 500GB western digital laptop drive went on sale for $5 more, so I canceled the first order and got that, since storage is more important than speed in a backup drive.

Title: Re: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: SConforti on June 19, 2010, 09:28:12 PM

I have a 145 GB hard drive.

Title: Re: Anyone still up? I have 2.5 hours to make a decision!
Post by: Mustard on June 19, 2010, 11:54:47 PM

...really? I didn't even know they made them that small...