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Hi,

My WD mybook external hardrive died, and now i need a new one for my
laptop (which has th elaptop firewire conneciton, which isn't the same
as the pc firewire connection that most external harddrives come with,
thus need to use usb)

So I'm thinking of getting the following toshiba 320 gb external ( see
link below). However I have also been considering getting a regular
internal harddrive and enclosure. would this be better in terms of
reliability and speed? How difficult is this to set up? If this is
better any recommendations for a 300-500 gb drive and enclosure?

Thanks.

I've used build yourself external cases and have two pre-built external
HDDs too. The thing with build your own is that the cheap cases I used
were a bit flaky while the pre-built have been rock solid and it is
actually cheaper to buy pre-built than build your own. I have 1TB Comstar
and 500GB Acomdata. Acomdata is only $89.99 for 500GB model and has both
USB 2.0 and eSATA. I see at Newegg they have a model with USB 2.0 and
Firewire too. You can also get a model with 1TB for $139.99 at neweeg
that has USB 2.0 and eSATA. Acomdata is good in my experience and I
expect cheaper than that Toshiba model you are looking at.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822216035