Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 08:07 -0500, ken wrote:
Previous posts say that people are successfully using external USB hard drives. Who of you has a recommendation/review of what they've been using, how they like it, what they don't like about it, what it has or lacks or what additional features would be desirable (e.g., a blinky read/write LED). Yeah, price is a consideration, but I've found again and again that it's a mistake to sacrifice quality; the little bit of cash saved is more than swamped by the time and trouble second-rate equipment lays on me. I plan on using this, among other uses, to back up my laptop and other machines, so longevity is definitely an issue. I'm thinking I'd want a capacity of at least 100Gb.
Comments, recommendations, analyses, and opinions cordially invited.
You can also take a look at buying just the external case and then buy the harddrive of your choice. CompUSA sells a bare case that accepts most internal harddrives/CD/DVD drives for about US30.00.
I recently bought an Adaptec 3.5" drive case, for $20 (CDN). Works well, though at the moment I've only got a 6G drive in it, as that was the largest spare I had. I'll have to get a bigger one sometime. Incidentally, that drive came in handy the other day, when a friend's notebook drive started to fail. I plugged the drive in and used the linux based System Rescue CD to copy all the data off her now unbootable hard drive. The next project is to replace that drive and reload the software, including OpenOffice, instead of Word etc, though she'll still be running XP.
Also you only needed to address this to the list once.
I was also wondering why he had the same address in the message 3 times. I guess he wanted to make sure we got it. ;-)