what external HD to buy?

[bruns37]

Hello and thanks for your time. I'm looking for a 400 to 500gb external hard drive to buy and don't know what's reliable and what's not. I don't want the top of the line million dollar one, by that I mean a friend said seagate barracuda is seagates next to best model. So I'm looking for a reliable 400 or 500gb EX HD. Anybody got any suggestions in maybe a $200.00 or less one?
THANKS
bruns37

[freakitchen]

I'd get this external enclosure and install this drive in it.

Comfortably under your budget, and you can easily swap drives in and out of that enclosure, which cannot be done with pre-made units.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by Freakitchen I'd get this external enclosure and install this drive in it. Comfortably under your budget, and you can easily swap drives in and out of that enclosure, which cannot be done with pre-made units.

My recommendation would have been the same. I have 8 external HDDs at home and they're all home built using an external HDD housing and whatever HDD I had lying around.

Cricket

[inflames988]

ill second that. this is a more cost efficient way to get external storage space, and is also much more flexible; if you ever want to make it an internal drive you can do it easily.

i have that same exact enclosure and it worked great for a while, but just stopped working as of a couple days ago. Either way, Apricorn is a good brand of enclosure, and it is generally agreed upon around here that it's the best. other brands tend to be problematic.

I also just ordered two of those seagate 500gb drives w/ 32mb cache. If theyre anything like the other seagates I have, they're great and will perform well.

HTH