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Old 05-14-2007, 02:45 AM
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Best external backup hard drive.
This is a spinnoff of the Best hard drive recovery services thread. I'm about to make the jump for another external hard drive. and I was wondering what's the field like.

I'm Looking for 500GB, larger buffer size, Oxford chipset, Must be quiet, at least 7200 rpm. Anyone had success..........
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Old 05-14-2007, 03:29 AM
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Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - 7200RPM - $ 134.95 ($45 cheaper than Costco).

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...l_Edition.html
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LaCie has some good ones
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or you can buy your own HD of choice plus the HD enclosure with oxford chipset and you are good to go. save a few bucks :p
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I bought a 250GB LaCie Porsche Firewire drive. Haven't used it yet.

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Semi-jacking QwkAg's thread: I'm in mkt for my first ext HD...
I study the ads, I see the deals on Buy.com, et al, and am
thoroughly confused.

I'm not gonna store the Public Lib, so what the hell am I
looking for in an ext HD?

I simply want to back up pics, some financial data, and some
other stuff. Any bullets or FABs I should be considering?
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This looks like a good option at a great price:
Western Digital WDG2NC10000N MyBook World II Edition 1TB Network Hard Drive
WDG2NC10000N

J&R has it for $359.

It has remote access, net work drive and you can run it as mirror drives.
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or you can buy your own HD of choice plus the HD enclosure with oxford chipset and you are good to go. save a few bucks :p
That's what i do. And when the HD runs out of space you can just pop a bigger one into the enclosure and you're ready to go.
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At $359, how much would you save?
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I've got three on my desk, all external USB connected:
500GB Western Digital MyBook (bulletproof)
500GB LaCie (somewhat flakey)
80GB iomega (bulletproof)

I'd stick to the Western Digital units.
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