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looking for external drive for backup
I have a home office with 2 computers. I'd like to purchase a large external
hard drive to backup the data of both. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 250 gig. Anyone have any suggestions as to a good drive? Is their something wrong with my idea? Thanks in advance. Marty Shore |
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looking for external drive for backup
Marty Shore wrote
I have a home office with 2 computers. I'd like to purchase a large external hard drive to backup the data of both. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 250 gig. Anyone have any suggestions as to a good drive? I like Samsung's myself. Unfortunately they dont make a packaged external drive currently, so I would buy a decent external housing that cools the drive adequately, which doesnt include a drive and add a drive to one. That way you get the full 3 year warranty on the drive. All the manufacturers that do sell packaged external hard drives only have 1 year warrantys. That means that there is no nice tidy thing to recommend tho. Is their something wrong with my idea? Nope, its a very decent way to do backup. |
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looking for external drive for backup
"Marty Shore" wrote in message ... I have a home office with 2 computers. I'd like to purchase a large external hard drive to backup the data of both. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 250 gig. Anyone have any suggestions as to a good drive? Is their something wrong with my idea? Thanks in advance. Marty Shore Not at all! I just started doing exactly that last week with a 250GB'er. I picked up a Samsung (P)ATA SP2514N from newegg.com (measly $95, including shipping) and couldn't be happier with the drive. It is an internal drive though. Initially, I planned on using it internally but after coming across the 137GB BIOS thing (for Win), and then re-thinking what I actually would mainly use the drive for (media and backups), I just made it an external deal with a case I already have. (ADS Dual Link Drive Kit).. I'm using USB2.0 with it and it works just fine. I've also used it, externally, with WinXP/98 and Linux with no problem at all. 250GB, at first, seems like it will be a "bottomless pit", but the more HDD you have, the more you want to use it! With media and backups, I've already used ~160GB on the drive. I'll probably be getting another drive (same one) in the relative near future. The SP2414N lives up to Samsung's repupation for quiet HDD's as well. It runs a faint whisper. The fan in the case, quiet also, is louder than the drive. If it weren't for the activity led, I wouldn't even know when the drive is in use. |
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looking for external drive for backup
Previously Marty Shore wrote:
I have a home office with 2 computers. I'd like to purchase a large external hard drive to backup the data of both. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 250 gig. Anyone have any suggestions as to a good drive? Is their something wrong with my idea? Thanks in advance. The idea is fine. Stay away from Maxtor. Therir disks need to be cooled very well to be reliable. Their own external enclosures are _not_ well cooled. If you don't mind a little screwdriver work, then get an enclosure without disk (make sure about cooling, best get one with a fan) and a disk. Personally my impression with current Samsung disks is very good. Arno |
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looking for external drive for backup
Marty Shore wrote:
I have a home office with 2 computers. I'd like to purchase a large external hard drive to backup the data of both. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 250 gig. Just buy a 250GB hard drive and put it into an external enclosure. There are ones for USB and ones for SATA and ones for both USB and SATA. The ones made by Kingwin have built-in fans and wall-wart power supplies to keep the hard drive cool: http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=27 *TimDaniels* |
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looking for external drive for backup
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:30:36 GMT, "Marty Shore"
wrote: I have a home office with 2 computers. I'd like to purchase a large external hard drive to backup the data of both. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 250 gig. Anyone have any suggestions as to a good drive? Is their something wrong with my idea? Thanks in advance. I've had good luck with Iomega externals over the last year or so - several network drives and a USB2 external. They've been reliable and run cool, though one of the bigger network drives has a somewhat noisy fan. I don't know who's drives are in them, but whatever they are, they've worked well for me. -- Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer |
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