Need recommendations for an external hard drive...
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
April 12, 2010 5:58pm CST
I am looking to buy an external hard drive. I want close to 700GB size. It is for putting movies on and pictures so we can view them on the tv screen instread of huddled around the small PC screen.
So.. if you have one... share your brand and why you like it and why you think it is the best.
Anyone have a Western Digital? What do you think about it?
Also, is there something else I need to be cautious of having for it to accomodate my PC? I have Windows XP. I won't be using it much with the PC, just watching on the TV via USB connection but just in case I want to put something from my PC to the External HD...is there anything I need to know?
Thanks for all comments
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4 responses
@CeraSumat (64)
• China
13 Apr 10
WD dose have a series of portable HDs close to 700 GB, about $180 for 640 GB and $220 for 750 GB in my country. The price is only for reference.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
13 Apr 10
What have you heard about WD? About $120 for 500GB here in the states..give or take. I am using my free money earned (from surveys and such) to buy this and currently have $100 so I don't have to "come up" with much more.
I hadn't heard of Western Digital in this area before..if at all. Just the other name brands, but my daughter and son bought WD so that is why I have been looking at that one, but Sony seems to have good"sounding" ones too.
Thanks for you comment
@CeraSumat (64)
• China
14 Apr 10
I have been using WD HDs for almost 5 years and they have worked fine. You can also try Hitachi as an alternate. Seagate, another brand, 11th 500GB version is not recommanded for they break down always, wiping everything in them so have a bad reputation.
I don't know whether it is legal or available in the US that one can go to a compmarket and buy a simple device to transform an ordinary HD into a mobile HD. Such a modification dose exist. A non-mobile 640GB WD HD costs about $60 and the modification device about $15 so you can have a shot.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
13 Apr 10
My first thought on that is a bargain laptop with 100 GB or more would probably be a better solution, and then you would have a backup computer in case yours failed. If you can pick up a nice laptop with 200 GB for $200 shipped, why pay $100 for an external drive with less memory?
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
13 Apr 10
I"m copying what my son did. But in his case, he just did it and no reserach for what's best and money conscious and such! I want one that lasts and has lots of room. And just basically learning about external HDs. I will probably back up my PC on it too. I want at least 500GB
$200 for a laptop? Where?
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@akuler (3531)
• Malaysia
13 Apr 10
Hi coffeebreak,
I am using the Western Digital external hard drive. But mine is only 250 gigabytes. I do not know if they have this 700 gigabytes because I never saw it before. All i knew is they have one terabytes or 500 gigabytes.
When I first using my external hard drive, there is no problem with it. But after a while my lap top has a little bit problem to detected it. But it is all my problem since I dropped it a few times already
. Other then that, everything is just fine. And I am using it for more then a year now.
. Other then that, everything is just fine. And I am using it for more then a year now.@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
13 Apr 10
THanks for you comment. I might use it for my PC back up, but mostly at the moment anyway, it is to copy lots of movies on to and view from the TV.
@saumitragangwar (40)
• India
8 May 10
You can select HDD's from a large range having 250,500,640 GB's of space.I generally recommend you to buy a Western Digital or Seagate Hard drive.Both of these companies are the best HDD manufacturers.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
8 May 10
Thanks for the info. I knew about WD but was seeing alot of the Seagate and I have never heard of that one before...so that is good to know they are both the same quality. Now, I just need to compare price and size and choose between them. Thanks!
