Going to Buy an External Hard Drive (But which One to Choose)

[DVD+R]

Today I recieved Some junk mail in my Letterbox, I glanced through it,and there was a Store Catalogue for OfficeWorks (A Store here in Australia) http://www.officeworks.com.au/owbd/b2c/init.do And in it I found Some External Hard Drives. Take a look at the link I supplied, In the Left Hand Menu Scroll down to Technology and Machines, Scroll down to Drivers and Memory click on and tell me which one I should consider buying, I'm open to sugestions but am Interested in the highest capacity Models also. :)

[WSFuser]

teh maxtor onetouch drives are good.

[Long View]

Take a look at e-sata Seagate, or Freecom. Supposed to be much faster than usb or Firewire

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/08/24/seagate_500_gb_external_hard_drive_goes_esata_uk/

[lodore]

but then you need E sata socket on the motherboard.
i would say the western digital mybook is a good option.
or a seagate.
i have a maxtor one touch which works but the software that checks the status decided to use 100percent cpu when it started. it never used to but now i cant stop that unless i end the processes so i uninstalled it.
lodore

[Long View]

you would only need a pci card

http://www.lindy.com/uk/productfolder/05/51170/index.php

[AaLF]

Do yourself a favour and buy 120gb of external NOTEBOOK HDD.

If you buy a regular internal HDD with case 120gb or 220gb.... it'll more than likely overheat regularly without a fan back-up and need 'frequent naps' to recover.

[WSFuser]

were supposed to choose products from that link or could we suggest our own?

if its teh latter, then id go with seagate or western digital.

[Carver]

I just bought 300GB Pushbutton USB 2.0/Firewire 7200RPM Combo Drive with 16MB Cache http://www.provantage.com/seagate-st3300601cb-rk~7SEGR00Y.htm

[LockBox]

-{ Quote: "Do yourself a favour and buy 120gb of external NOTEBOOK HDD.

If you buy a regular internal HDD with case 120gb or 220gb.... it'll more than likely overheat regularly without a fan back-up and need 'frequent naps' to recover." }-

Not if he buys quality products. I've had a couple of dozen external hard drives and nothing like that has ever happened. Maybe buying cheap no name enclosures and a hard drive may cause this, but regular drives inside a Maxtor/WD/Seagate case? That would be a rarity.

Gerard

[Peleg]

Seagate all the way.

I have their USB 2/IEEE 1394 500 GB and it's very good.

The SATA one should be even faster.